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"The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry."
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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."

"Every misfortune is a fortune."

"It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people."

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment."

"Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you."
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"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational."


"No matter what name we give it or how we judge it, a candidate's character is central to political reporting because it is central to a citizen's decision in voting."


"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy."


"Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful."


"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up."


"Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics."


"Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of."


"For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance."
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