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"I'm not in the judgment part of journalism."
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"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
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"I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
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"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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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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"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."
Power
"On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there."
Time
"People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story."
Love
"People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry."
People
"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
Information
"You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off."
Want
"I'm not in the judgment part of journalism."
Journalism
"I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story."
Journalism
"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
Life
"If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available."
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