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I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

Bob Woodward

Lawyers didn’t seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
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Lawyer Literature Stories
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.
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Memories Out War Wiping
…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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Division Military Team
I don’t think it’s useful for somebody to argue with reviews.
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Arguing Reviews Thinking
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
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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People Running Smell
We’re not going to have another Watergate in our lifetime. I’m sure.
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Lifetime Literature Watergate
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 have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they’re not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
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Asking Book Long
We need to police ourselves in the media.
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Media Needs Police
If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it’s really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
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Important Needs Risk
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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Editors Would Be Stories
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon’s lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
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Failure Finals Lying System Truth
[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 think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I’m confused about the information I get from the media.
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Confused Media Thinking
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
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People Stories Wisdom

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