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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 Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces."
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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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"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
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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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"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most."
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"I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave."
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"Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!"
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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."
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"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
"American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon."
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"I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair."
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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
"Great questions make great reporting."
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"The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
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