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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”

Ben Bradlee

More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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Guy Personal Something Telling
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
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
Nothing’s riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I’m gonna get mad.
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Country Guy Mad
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
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
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 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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”

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