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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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"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."
"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."
"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."
"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
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"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
"The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers."
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."
"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."
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