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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. – Carl Bernstein

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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. – Carl Bernstein

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The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most peoples lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. – Carl Bernstein

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That ephemeral sheet,… the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. – Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, July 1858

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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. – Anna Quindlen

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