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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

Ben Bradlee

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
BEN BRADLEE

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 changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
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
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
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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 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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Fall Trying Worry

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.

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