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Quotes by Editor
"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
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"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."
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"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
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"There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions."
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"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
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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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"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."
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"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
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"What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen."
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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people."
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"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
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"In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism."
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"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."
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"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
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"Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election."
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"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
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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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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone."
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"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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"If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside."
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"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
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"When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at."
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"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
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"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
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