top of page
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee

"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."

Standard 
 Customized
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."

Exlpore more News quotes

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"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."

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"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."

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

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

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"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."

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

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

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

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

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"I'm very wary of news on television."

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

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

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"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."

Explore more quotes by Ben Bradlee

Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"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."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"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."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"You never monkey with the truth."
Quote_1.png
Ben Bradlee
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
bottom of page