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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

"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."

"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."

"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."

"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."

"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."

"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."

"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."

"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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