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"In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves."
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"I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art."
"Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed."
"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."
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"I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be."
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"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free."
"They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary."
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