Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Overview
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than doubled, reaching 5,200; advertising linage grew from 19 million to 62 million column inches per year; and gross income increased almost sevenfold, reaching 117 million dollars.
Sulzberger was the son of Cyrus L.
Quotations
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
Obviously, a man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right. But give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods and you destroy his whole reasoning processes and make him less than a man.