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

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Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. – Rebecca West

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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. – Michel De Certeau

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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. – Spiro T. Agnew

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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Thats my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a ducks back. If its not positive, I didnt hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. – George Foreman

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You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Dont let yourself indulge in vain wishes. – Rabindranath Tagore

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It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. – Jessamyn West

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