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"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
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"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
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"What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."
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"I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch."
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"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
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"I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department."
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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
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"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
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"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."
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"Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
Television
"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
News
"And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it."
Work
"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
Job
"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing."
Music
"Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject."
Want
"Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff."
Time
"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
News
"So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time."
Time
"I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department."
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