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"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you."
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"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
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"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."
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"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
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"There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect."
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"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
Politics
"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever."
Journalism
"The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you."
Journalism
"What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time."
Time
"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill."
Driving
"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
Creativity
"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
Happiness
"If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?"
Man
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