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"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."
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"Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press."
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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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