You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up — 15 minutes. Then get your asses back in gear. We’re under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothing’s riding on this except the, uh, First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country.
Jason Robards as Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, in the film, “All the President’s Men.” The quote is featured in a great New York Times article from Sunday on how editors are treated on stage and in the movies, “All the Editors That Are Fit to Spoof.”