"The media" is too big a word. I think there are some reporters who have adopted a "gotcha" mentality, but not in the really good newspapers.
~Ben Bradlee

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I don't know about "any" publisher. But Katharine Graham and I had been working together for almost seven years and we had come to trust each other.
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I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
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I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be "gotcha" journalism, but it's also good journalism.
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Maybe some of today's papers have too many "feel-good" features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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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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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
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They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
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We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
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You never monkey with the truth.
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