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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

"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."

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"Every news organization should ideally be as broadly representative as possible."

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"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

"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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Amber Hurdle

"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."

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Amber Hurdle

"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."

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Amber Hurdle

"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."

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Amber Hurdle

"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."

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"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
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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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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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