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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

Other quotes by Carl Bernstein

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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Truth
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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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Television
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Carl Bernstein
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding

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Media

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. – Wendell Phillips

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Media

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. – Akbar S. Ahmed

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Media

Upon comparing BBC News with CNN: Melodrama is something foreigners do. – Jslayeruk, “Random points,” post after July 2005 London subway bombings

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Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of ones home that one carries in ones heart. – Freya Stark

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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. – Judy Garland

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Love

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. – Marion Woodman

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Body

Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth. – Valerie El Halta

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Pregnancy