"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."

Journalism, Kitchen, Tenderness

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"So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Journalism, Nothing

"If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow."

David Strathairn, American Actor

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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."

Lewis Hine, American Photographer

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"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech."

Pete Wilson, American Politician

Journalism, First, Freedom, Rights, Information

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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

Carl Hiaasen, American Writer

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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."

Bob Schieffer, American Journalist

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"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."

Ben Bradlee, American Editor

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"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."

Steve Carlton, American Athlete

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"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."

Life, Fear, Film, Luck

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."

Work, Help, Murder, Television

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

Nothing, Sea

"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."

Information, Psychiatry, Television

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."

Work, Time, Murder, Want

"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."

Man, Purity, Sound

"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

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"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like."

Time, People, Idea, Living

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."

Change, People, Habits, Invention

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

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