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.
From Carl Bernstein
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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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