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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."

"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."

"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."

"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."

"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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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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