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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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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"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."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
"If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism."
"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."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
"When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?"
"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."
"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
"Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point."
"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal."
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