The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- John Gunther, (Aug 30 1901-1970), US journalist; He became famous for his series of sociopolitical books describing Inside Europe, 1936; also wrote Death Be Not Proud, 1949.