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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
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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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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
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"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."
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"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Truth
"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
Time
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
Fact
"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."
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"To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths."
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"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
Behavior
"I never learn anything from listening to myself."
Self
"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
Reflection
"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
Life
"A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name."
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