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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

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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces Graves Tape
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
To hell with news! I’m no longer interested in news. I’m interested in causes. We don’t print the truth. We don’t pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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Causes News People
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
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
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

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