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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
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"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
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"Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived."
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"Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians."
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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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"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
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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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"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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"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."
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"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."
Reading
"If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror."
Famous
"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."
Nation
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
Reading
"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."
Writing
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."
Identity
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
Fear
"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."
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