Ted Nesi:

Reporters are going to be looking for other stories to cover over the next year, and a quixotic campaign by the quotable and unpredictable Lincoln Chafee could be excellent copy.

Glenn Greenwald:

Because policies that command the agreement of the two parties' establishments are largely ignored by the DC press in favor of the issues where they have some disagreements, the illusion is created that they agree on nothing.

An exchange:

David Sanger: There's a lot we miss every day. I go to work every day convinced that I've got a handle on fully 3% of what's going on, okay?
Stewart Baker: [laughing] The key is [that] you can persuade us it's the most important 3%.
David Sanger: [laughing] That's right. [laughing] That's right.

Martin Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post:

It used to be, in companies like ours, that we hired people who could learn from us. Now we aim to hire people who can teach us what we need to know.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner:

Who can we turn to if not our news anchors?

David W. Dunlap:

Publicity surrounding the observatory's opening next month may temporarily divert public attention from the scrutiny being paid to the friendship between Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who exercises a great deal of control over the Port Authority, and Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys and an owner of Legends.

Max Eulenstein and Lauren Scissors:

Pages should continue to post things that people find meaningful.

New York Times:

Top Stories is now more urgent, more visual and more helpful.