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"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."

"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."

"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."

"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."

"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."

"We report the news. Fox talks about the news."

"There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long."
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"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."

"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."

"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."

"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."

"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."

"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."

"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
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