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"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
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"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"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."
"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...."
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
"The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know."
"Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred."
"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
"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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"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
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