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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 never admits that nothing much is happening."
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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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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
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"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
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"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."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."
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"I know that doesn't sound very radical and webby of me to say that but I think the New York Times is important. I also think there's an occasional piece that will pop out."
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"While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers."
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"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."
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"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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"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits."
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"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."
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