Journalism Quote by Carl Bernstein

““A prize-winning science reporter, Simons had become the number-two editor at the Post a year before. An intent, sensitive man with a large nose, thin face and deep-set eyes, he looks like the kind of Harvard teaching assistant who carries a slide ruler strapped to his belt. But he is skillful with fragile egos, and also the perfect counterpoint to Bradlee. Bradlee is more like Woodward: he wants hard information first and is impatient with theories. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward””

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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life…

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“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…

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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

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