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"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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"In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours."
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"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
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"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."
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"Nothing in fine print is ever good news."
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"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
Democracy
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
Witness
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
Family
"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
Family
"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."
Fear
"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
Foreign
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
People
"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
People
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
Journalism
"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
Society
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