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"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events."
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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."
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"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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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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"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction."
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"Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
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"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously."
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"I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer."
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"In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels."
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