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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.

Ben Bradlee

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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Editors Lazy Thinking
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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Campaign Claims Telling Truth
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.
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Gone Past Real
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Orbit Proof Resurrect Resurrection
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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Differences Newspapers People President Press
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.
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Editors Government National People Security
More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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Guy Personal Something Telling
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail.
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Government Jail Mean
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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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Journalism May Robbing

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.

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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.

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