There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
BEN BRADLEEThere is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
More Ben Bradlee Quotes
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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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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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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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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You never monkey with the truth.
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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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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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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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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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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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It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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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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