I think British journalists do well in America because the newspaper culture there is so strong - telling stories and presenting them readably is in their DNA. British newspapers get a terrible rap, but they are brilliant in their presentation, most of them, so full of vitality and literary wit.
Interpretation
British journalists excel in America due to a strong newspaper culture that emphasizes storytelling and readability.
Tina Brown highlights the inherent strength of British journalism in the U.S. by emphasizing how deeply storytelling and engaging presentation are ingrained in the culture of British newspapers. Despite facing criticism, she believes that their vitality and literary wit contribute significantly to their success in captivating American audiences.
In practice
In a discussion about media influence in different countries, this quote illustrates the unique strengths of British journalists.
It's one of the biggest fibs going that American newspapers are now being forced to give up their commitment to investigative reporting. Most of them gave up long ago as their greedy managements squeezed every cent out of the bottom line and turned their newsrooms into eunuchs.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.
One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.
There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
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