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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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Television
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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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Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. – Elbert Hubbard

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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. – George Bernard Shaw

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All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. – Bobby Knight, on reporters

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. – Charles Baudelaire

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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were Daniel must learn not to distract others. And now, thats what I do for a living. – Dan Stevens

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