CLARENCE PAGE, columnist, Chicago Tribune

“Reuters and Bloomberg News are doing well because they don’t do paper, just content.”

“Yesterday’s news is today’s commentator.”

“Politics is like Wall Street or Las Vegas: you never use your own money.”

“Newspapers will continue to be around – they’re like jazz. You have to be educated to appreciate it.”

“My generation got out there and played by the rules and lost. This generation won.”

“Chicago is the only city that associates Valentine’s Day with a massacre.”

Clarence’s history of the description of descendants of slaves: We went from colored people to Negroes to blacks to African Americans to people of color. We’ve come full circle!

He’s encouraged that Obama’s speech on race is getting many more hits on YouTube than the Rev. Wright.

“Sensationalism? We prefer to call it excitement.”
(Clarence Page quoting Rupert Murdoch)