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"American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"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."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
"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."
"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."
"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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"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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