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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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"I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism."
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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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"I've been with the paper for almost 30 years."
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"I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it."
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"If you want romance, fuck a journalist."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
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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."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track."
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"Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things."
Technology
"I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair."
Time
"I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think."
People
"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."
Life
"Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!"
Mistake
"I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave."
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"American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon."
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"I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't."
People
"I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves."
Being
"The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
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