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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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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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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."
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"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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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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"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press."
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"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."
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"The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close."
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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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"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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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."
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"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
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"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
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"You never monkey with the truth."
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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
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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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"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."
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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
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