Jack Harrison, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and ex-Vice President of The New York Times Company, commences his discussion by reading a letter a little girl wrote to him. "Dear Mr. Harrison, my mother said I should write you and thank you for introducing me to that great author David Halberstam and for helping me get his autograph. P.S. My mother also said Mr. Halberstam should send back my pen." Mr. Harrison has firm confidence in the Times and its emphasis on the quality of the written word. At The New York Times, Mr. Harrison encourages all of his writers to go to the library and read "Gibbon for the majestic cadence of his prose, Chesterton for the gift of antithesis, McCauley who could double a sentence into a fist and land a devastating blow, Twain for the love of laughter...Shakespeare, Pope, Houseman for economy of phrase, Burke for elegance and E.B. White for clarity." Mr. Harrison explains that Times has been working to increase its visibility and spent approximately $4-10 million for about.com. About.com has about 35 million users each month and is the fourth most visited site on the Internet. The Times is taking these large steps but "the recipe never changes," says Mr. Harrison, and it "add[s] vegetables to the soup, not water." "Reporting and editing are serious tasks with profound ramifications, [and] in the history and tradition of that covenant, they have remained fair and served as a watchdog for abuses from government," argues Mr. Harrison. He asserts that despite carrying the label "liberal," the Times has maintained their goal to "comfort the afflicted" and "afflict the comfortable." Mr. Harrison concludes with a touching example of an excellent Florida editorial. The piece was about an act of violence one young and uneducated man committed. The editorial asserted that had the young man read Milton's Paradise Lost, he would not have had a need to destroy both his life and the lives of six other people. It is a priority of those in the profession of journalism to work towards educating young minds, so that more than a select few individuals can experience vision and discover works like Paradise Lost.