I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
BEN BRADLEEMore likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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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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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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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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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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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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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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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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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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The first rough draft of history.
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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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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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