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"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"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."
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"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
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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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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
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"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."
Life
"The most fun is getting paid to learn things."
Fun
"An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day."
Journalism
"People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective."
People
"Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!"
Mistake
"The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can."
Change
"I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation."
Commitment
"I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair."
Time
"People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong."
People
"I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think."
People
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