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"If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats."
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"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."
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"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
"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."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism."
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"I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation."
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