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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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"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."
"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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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."
"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
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