"I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me."

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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

— P. J. O'Rourke