RIP David Broder

Jesus_Muscatel · Mar 10, 2011

RIP Mr. Broder.

David stayed in touch with my dad in his retirement and came to the funeral in November '09.

Always a pleasant guy and had a great way of summarizing national political trends into just a few paragraphs.

The Post obit was a good read. Didn't know he entered the University of Chicago at 15. That was pretty rare in those days.

Dave Kindred · Mar 10, 2011

Pencil Dick said:

Excerpt from Broder's 1973 Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech. Truer words have never been spoken:

"Instead of promising 'All the News That's Fit to Print', I would like to see us say - over and over, until the point has been made - that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours - distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it's the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version."
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I quoted it in my book on the Post and said it "ought to be on every newspaper's front page, up there in the ear where every wingnut can read it."

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