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Terrorism gets people's attention.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Terrorism
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I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Handle
Intimidated
Preparation
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When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Advice
Attorney
Giving
Nice
Be Nice
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The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Backgrounds
Organization
People
Privileged
Terrorist
Wind
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My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Work Good Look
Network
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You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Hero
Report
Broadcast
Newspaper
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You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
World People Information
Beneath
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You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Filmmaking
General Public
Order
People
Technique
Television News
Network
Network Television
Simpler
Techniques
Tighter
Understandable
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There has always been tension between reporters and the administration, particularly when it comes to war in the modern era. You can go to Kennedy or Johnson and see that they weren't happy with David Halberstam or Morley Safer.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Administration
Johnson
Modern Era
Reporters
Tension
David
Safer
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What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Vietnam
Almost Anything
Established
Broadcast
Civil
Restrictions
Rights Movement
Wake
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Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Confidential
Background
Phone
Epidemic
Sources
Woodward
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I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television.
Lowell Bergman / Reporter
Corporate
Independent
Magazines
New York Times
Newspapers
Operations
Papers
Rolling
Television News
Programs
Quite A Bit
Regional
Reporting
Rolling Stone
Stone
Underground
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