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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

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
The first rough draft of history.
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Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
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
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
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
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
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
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
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
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
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World

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