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"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column."
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"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
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"The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that."
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"When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him."
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"Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money."
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"For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy."
Policy
"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative."
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"They know that the column resonates in the community. They know that people like it, and yet they don't have room for one column once week that consistently got it right."
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"And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there."
Politics
"What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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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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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"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."
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"And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes."
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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