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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
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"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
"If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism."
"There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect."
"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
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"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
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