[Carruthers]

We are all flawed...

The late Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during Watergate, is called “the least dull figure in the history of postwar journalism” in a personal obituary by David Remnick in The New Yorker. Bradlee, who Remnick says was an “expert in the art of florid dismissal”, liked to dictate his correspondence into a recorder but his secretary struggled with his industrial language. On one occasion she had to go and ask the advice of the custodian of the paper’s style guide: “Is ‘dickhead’ one word or two?”

The Times