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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.

Ben Bradlee

You never monkey with the truth.
BEN BRADLEE

Animal Monkey Truth
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
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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

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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