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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.

Ben Bradlee

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 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
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
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
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
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.
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Fall Trying Worry
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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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