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Julian Assange

"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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"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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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."

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"I'm not in the judgment part of journalism."

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"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind."

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"Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it."

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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

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"What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true."

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"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."

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"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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"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."
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"Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior."
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"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
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"Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States."
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"The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us."
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"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see."
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"We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on."
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