Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
BEN BRADLEEThe history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
More Ben Bradlee Quotes
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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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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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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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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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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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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.
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The first rough draft of history.
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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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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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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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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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