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I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

Ben Bradlee

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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces Graves Tape
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’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
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
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Given Motive Newspapers
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
Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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Feel Good News Paper
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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Passionate Saws 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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
BEN BRADLEE

Fall Trying Worry
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

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