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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”

Ben Bradlee

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
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
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
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 first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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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Causes News People
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
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing

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