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There is no democracy without journalism.
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Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.
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Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.
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Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
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The American people can always be trusted with the information.
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Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
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If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.
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You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.
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In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.
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In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
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Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
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If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
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No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
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I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?
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I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.
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No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.
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Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
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The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o
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Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.
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Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
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Time History People
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America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.
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Democracy
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The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.
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The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.
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When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.
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You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.
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Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That is how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses and that is where we come in.
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
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Ideas
Millions
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Youtube
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Networks
Reporter
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