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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"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."
"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
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"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."
"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
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