Daniel Schorr Quotes
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All news is an exaggeration of life.
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
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There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.
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Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.
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Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.
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I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
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