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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
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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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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
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"I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail."
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right."
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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
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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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"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."
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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
Journalism
"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
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"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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"You never monkey with the truth."
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"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
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"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
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"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
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