Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
BOB WOODWARDDeep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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Good work is always done in defiance of management.
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I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
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I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Finally, the president added, ‘The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic…’
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don’t know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.
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It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
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They need to review this secret world. We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot.
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.
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