'Whatever happens, public can't lose. And the reporter can't lose.'

A few predictions: Radio eventually will drive many newspapers out of business. Radio news will become more reliable. Newspapers, certainly the stronger ones that survive the struggle, will become better. Some day (it is scientifically possible now) some sort of television device will bring a complete newspaper to the customer over the wire. Whatever happens, public can't lose. And the reporter can't lose. That gentleman, whether on the air or at his typewriter, will always have his work to do."

-- Stanley Walker
City Editor
New York Herald Tribune
1934

(From the book, City Editor, by Stanley Walker, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1934)

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