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Tom Brokaw

"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."

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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."

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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."

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