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.
BOB WOODWARDI 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.
More Bob Woodward Quotes
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I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.
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…Obama said, ‘I welcome debate among my team, but I won’t tolerate division’.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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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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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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I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not…
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We need to police ourselves in the media.
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When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.
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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon’s numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
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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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I don’t think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
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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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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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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
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I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
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