"The greatest felony in the news business today……" — Carl Bernstein
"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."
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24 Quotes by Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein has 24 quotes on this site.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which…
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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The…
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At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a…
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The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather…
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a…
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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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…
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Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.
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Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch…
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural…
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More Accuracy Quotes
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All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with…
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
— Saul Bellow
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I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
— Samuel Butler
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
— John Dewey
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
— Wyatt Earp
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The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
— Harry Vardon
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Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children…
— Robin Sharma
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Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance…
— Charles Babbage
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