"Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution."
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"God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism."
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"Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product."
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"Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life."
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"Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion."
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"The sole aim of journalism should be service."
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"Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled."
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"There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of."
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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."
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"A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life."
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"Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity."
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"Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody."
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"Journalism is the entertainment business."
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"I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history"
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"The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am."
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"The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true."
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"The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition."
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"Do not read the newspapers."
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"Profiles aren't journalism."
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"The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention."
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