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"It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in."
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"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."
"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
"What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."
"It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean."
"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
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"Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform."
"In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic."
"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."
"We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit."
"As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000."
"We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up."
"As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly."
"Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior."
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