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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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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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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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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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"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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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."
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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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"Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism."
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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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"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."
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"If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism."
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"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
Love
"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
Happiness
"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time
"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
Desire
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Journalism
"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."
Woman
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
Journalism
"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Man
"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
Family
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