* “According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, only 21 percent in the U.S. said that they paid for news online. Of those who do, 31 percent say they pay for the New York Times, 24 percent for the Washington Post and 23 percent for the site of a local or regional paper.
* “(The presidential press conference) has turned into a shout fest of ‘gotchas’ and repeated, ad nauseum, questions designed to make the questioner look smart and tough and the commander in chief dumb.”–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial.