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Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

Ben Bradlee

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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running

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