The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Source: In Guardian, (London), 3 Jun 1992.
-- Carl Bernstein, (Feb 14 1944-____), US journalist, author; He exposed, with Bob Woodward, the Watergate scandal which led to the resignataion of Richard Nixon; wrote All the President's Men, 1974.