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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

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
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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
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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