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Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Bob Woodward

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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Government Motherhood Play
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Lifetime Literature Watergate
[Clinton] believes that the Washington press corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters will understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
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Believe Issues People
I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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Believe Patience Television
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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Editors Names Source
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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Book Jokes Literature Littles Serious
I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I’ve been told by first-hand sources.
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Hands Opportunity People
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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College Names Stories
Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it’s generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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Hands Literature Newspaper Television
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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Distance Long Practice
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
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Giving Literature Money
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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Issues Politics Vote
Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.
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Believe May Stories
I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Arguing Reviews Thinking
We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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Division Military Team

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