“If you get information that is going to jar the Government of the United States and jar the people of the United States, that’s what you get paid for. Don’t expect to be popular. The better you do the job, the more likely you are to go against conventional wisdom, and people don’t like to hear bad news. So you are not going to be popular.” David Halberstam, 1934-2007.
Tag: David Halberstam
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Mark over at Nofeblog has collected some of the more compelling eulogies of Hunter S. Thompson, including ones by cartoonist Ralph Steadman and colleagues Tom Wolfe and David Halberstam.