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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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"In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours."
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"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."
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"Nothing in fine print is ever good news."
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"Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar."
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"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
People
"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."
News
"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."
Society
"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."
Reading
"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
Reading
"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."
Time
"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
Friendship
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Nation
"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
Family
"I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them."
Success
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