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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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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
"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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"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."
"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."
"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
"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."
"And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story."
"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."
"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."
"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."
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