"If you make a mistake in writing about sports, you're likely to get a punch
in the nose.  If you make a mistake in writing about politics, you're likely
to get a letter to the editor.  There's a big difference between the two in
teaching the importance of accuracy to a young reporter." 

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-- James Reston,
columnist, dead at 87, December 1995, in a 1991 interview discussing his
first job as a sportswriter
(lightly paraphrased from memory)

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