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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."
"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."
"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."
"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
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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."
"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
"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."
"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."
"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
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