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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"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."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."
"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."
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"If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?"
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