Famous quotes by Howell Raines:
"Vacation Through an Apocalypse"
"I know our institution has been damaged ... I accept my responsibility for that, and I intend to fix it,"
"All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years,"
"All Alabamians benefited from the vigorous political reporting in which the Post-Herald specialized for many years."
"I was assigned to write the color story in the stands and on the sidelines in the Alabama-Auburn game at Legion Field in 1964, ... My first byline was in the Post-Herald and it was about Bear Bryant. So that's about as good as gets in Alabama."
"There is no question that on the subject of physical courage and moral courage that she was Dr King's equal in every way. So far, there is nothing to suggest that she ever wavered in getting him to take the more aggressive stance he could not only on segregation, but on the Vietnam war."
"That story was something I've never had occasion to discuss publicly, ... I assigned it because I was interested in this question: Here is a network that was once iconic in American broadcasting, that was traditionally, in the years of Cronkite and his predecessors, identified as being on the forefront of social policy reporting and coverage of the civil rights movement. Now it's basically at the mercy of the Masters, and what does that say about what had happened at CBS? What did it say about CBS's relationship with the Masters, and what did it say about CBS's relationship with its sponsors? That was the story that I was pressing to get."
"Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators."
"I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."
