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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

Ben Bradlee

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 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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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Men Perfect World
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that’s a national security matter. Well, you’re supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government.
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Journalist National Problem Security Tremble
I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn’t that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.
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Girl Numbers People
Nothing’s riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I’m gonna get mad.
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Country Guy Mad
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
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Body People Politics
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
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
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
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

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