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Ben Bradlee

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more."

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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."

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"The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer."

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Amber Hurdle

"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."

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"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."

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Amber Hurdle

"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."

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Amber Hurdle

"You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

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

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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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