The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis… — John Gunther Copy Share
[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. — John Gunther Copy Share Image
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
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