Quotes About Cockburn

Cockburn watched as the presses and types of the newspaper were wrecked. The admiral lamented that publisher Joseph Gales was nowhere to be found, but supposedly declared, "Be sure that all the C's are destroyed so that the rascals cannot any longer abuse my name."31

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.