Quote of the Day

“I learned many years ago about the importance of not punching down in weight class. You don’t hit ‘little people’ in this craft, you defend them. In Las Vegas, a quintessential company town, it’s the blowhard billionaires and their political toadies who are worth punching. And if you don’t have the freedom to call the community’s heavyweights to account, then that ‘commentary’ tag isn’t worth the paper on which it’s printed.” — John L. Smith, in a letter announcing his resignation from Sheldon Adelson‘s Las Vegas Review-Journal, after the paper’s leadership barred him from writing about Adelson and Steve Wynn, both of whom had sued Smith in the past.