"Writing a good story is like having a crush. You're excited about it, interested in it, give it your attention and want to know as much as you can. Then, you move on. Really great stories are like love affairs, they engulf you and maybe even define your career. Journalism is like life that way, you should have some crushes and everyone should be lucky enough to have a great love affair."
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Jerry Kammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in the US, Copley News Service, Oct. 2, 2007
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"Remind the politicians you interview that you pay them, that they are public servants. Remember every question is legitimate. And don't give up. There's always a leak. There's always someone who's trying to save the country."
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Helen Thomas, veteran Washington UPI newswoman, 2004
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“The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.”
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Edward R. Murrow
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“Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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George Orwell, 1946, Politics and the English Language
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