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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"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."
"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."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
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"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."
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