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"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."
"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger."
"Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance."
"People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman."
"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."
"I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage."
"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism."
"When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship."
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