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Quotes by Editor
"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."
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"Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment."
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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
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"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
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"The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack."
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"Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in."
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"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
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"That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns."
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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."
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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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"Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications."
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"The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship."
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"Self-preservation is the first responsibility."
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"Intellectuals are too sentimental for me."
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"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."
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"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."
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"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."
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"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young."
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"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."
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"I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting."
Love,
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"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
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"But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down."
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"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
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"The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism."
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"One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time."
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"A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him."
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"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."
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"But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths."
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"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."
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"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
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