As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
BEN BRADLEE
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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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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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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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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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To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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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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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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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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