Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality,… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Hardly unaware of his image, Bradlee even cultivated it. He delighted in displaying his street savvy, telling a reporter to get his… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Until the August 1 story about the Dahlberg check, the working relationship between Bernstein and Woodward was more competitive than anything else.… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Soon, challenges against the Post's ownership of two television stations in Florida were filed with the Federal Communications Commission. The price of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Deep Throat stamped his foot. 'A conspiracy like this...a conspiracy investigation...the rope has to tighten slowly around everyone's neck. You build convincingly… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“But you're absolutely sure we're right?' The question carried an intensity absent from the previous conversation. 'I remember talking with Henry Kissinger,'… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“During discussions in his office, Bradlee frequently picked up an undersize sponge-rubber basketball from the table and tossed it toward a hoop… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Sussman had the ability to seize facts and lock them in his memory, where they remained poised for instants recall. More than… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“It was 9:30 P.M., just an hour from deadline for the second edition. Woodward began typing: A $25,000 cashier's check, apparently earmarked… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Bradlee had been recruited with the idea that the New York Times need nod exercise absolute preeminence in American journalism. That vision… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Woodward said that he had told no one the name of Deep Throat. Mrs. Graham paused. 'Tell me,' she said. Woodward froze.… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein's name could appear with his… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists],… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Woodward, a registered Republican, did not vote. He couldn't decide whether he was more uneasy with the disorganization and naïve idealism of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
“The people of the United States are entitled to assume that their President is telling the truth. The pattern of misrepresentation and half-truths that… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
“The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein's name could appear with his on the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
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… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
“The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was cautious about… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
“They walked across 15th Street to the Madison Hotel's Montpelier Room, an opulent French restaurant. Bradlee asked for a corner table, and began the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
“Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
“The story was solid. Howard Simons ordered the front page remade for the second edition. Bernstein was more shaken by all this than by… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share
![“The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!” quote by Carl Bernstein](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/86a/carl-bernstein-10988_abdication_the-reality-is-that-the-media-are-probab_59464.jpg)
