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"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
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"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."
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"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
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"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."
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"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."
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"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
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"I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them."
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"The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?"
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"I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent."
People
"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."
Judges
"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent."
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"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."
Police
"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
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"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
America
"It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball."
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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
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