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"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."
"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
"What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise."
"As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years."
"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
"There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect."
"I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that."
"The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism."
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"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
"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."
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