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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
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
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
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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 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
As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.
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Jobs Lying Running
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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

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