"William Hodding Carter, II", was a Southern United States/Southern U.S. Political progressivism/progressive journalist and author.

Carter was born in Hammond, Louisiana/Hammond, Louisiana, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. His parents were William Hodding Carter, I/William Hodding Carter I, and the former Irma Dutartre. Among other distinctions in his career, Carter was a Nieman Fellow. He died in Greenville, Mississippi/Greenville, Mississippi, of a Myocardial infarction/heart attack at the age of sixty-five. He is interred in the Greenville Cemetery.

If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Hodding Carter on Wikipedia.

Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

The purpose of Sunshine Week is twofold: one, to make clear the extent big government has been curtailing the flow of information and news to the public, and two, to let people know ways to deal with this type of government behavior.

We have neither a congressionally declared war, nor a nation on wartime footing, nor an enemy who has the capacity to destroy us by invasion.

Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents.

What is happening, especially at the highest levels of government, is basically un-American. Americans should be treated as owners of their government and of their government's information, not as supplicants to whom you dole it out when you feel like it.