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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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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
"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."
"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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"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."
"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 must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
"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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