“The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers. -- Carl Bernstein,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
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