Quotes by Carl Bernstein - Page 1

There's something totally crazy about this.
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Nsa
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Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Garbage
Ordinary
Today
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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Truth
Honesty
Lines
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Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.
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Challenges
Journalism
People
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Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.
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Character
Clinton
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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Truth
Thinking
Versions
Best Truth Good
Attainable
Version
Same
Reporting
Same Thing
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Totally
Way Person Know
Motives
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Government
Branches
Broken
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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Branches
Broken
Congress
Dysfunctional
Institution
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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Believe
Campaigns
Election
Presidential
Presidential Election
Romney
Believes
Campaign
Mitt
Mitt Romney
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Becoming
Coarse
Culture
First Time
Firsts
Stupid
Weird
Time Weird First Time
Cultural
Ideal
Norms
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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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Enormous
Ethical
Hurt
Reporter
The Most Important
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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Independence
American Revolution
Declaration
Ideas
Political
Radical
Revolution
Argued
Been
Often
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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Watergate
Job
Great Thing
Press
Supposed
System
Worked
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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American History
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Movement
Political
Reform
Ending
Establishing
Movements
Wage
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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.
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Defined
Filled
House
Injustice
People
Struggle
Life Always Struggle
Outset
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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Former
Organization
Scale
Version
Fraction
Reduced
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Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.
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Feminist
Perception
Saint
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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.
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Quality
Accuracy
Felony
Missing
News
Quantity
Speed
Thoroughness
Miss
Big Story
Context
Substitute
News Business
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
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Truth
Contempt
Form
Information
Journalism
Lowest
Misinformation
Popular Culture
Reality
Disinformation
Lack
Lowest Form
Popular
Overrun
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
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Ordinary
People
Real
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the three original TV networks.
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New York
Three
Years
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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.
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Blizzard
Environment
Information
May
Pressure
Raised
Compete
Creates
Presented
Splash
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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Great Ones
New York Times
Networks
Employees
Post
Recent
Recent Years
Rogue
Washington Post
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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.
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Girl
Beautiful
Crush
Hometown
John Paul
Pope
Secular
Jewish
Ahead
Arrival
Attended
Danced
Germans
Grow Up
Indeed
Paul
Public Schools
Schools
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Truth
Contempt
Culture
Form
Garbage
Information
Journalism
Lowest
Misinformation
Ordinary
Popular Culture
Real
Reality
Today
Most
Being
American
Disinformation
Lack
Lowest Form
Popular
Overrun
Stuffed
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.
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Government
Compact
Expanding
Levels
Public Policy
Recognition
Safety
Twentieth Century
Society Government Better
Contribute
Effective
Federal Level
Measures
Protecting
Services
Twentieth
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Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an authoritarian demagogic point of view, nativist, anti-immigrant, racism, bigotry that he appeals to.
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Culture
Kind
Racism
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
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Agendas
Mainstream
News
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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Advantage
Congregation
Doctrine
Exchanging
Issues
John Paul
Pope
Staying
Views
Cardinal
Carefully
Cupboard
Joseph
Paul
Publicly
Speaking
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The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
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Powerful
Reality
Responsibility
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Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies
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Gossip
Media
Reality
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
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Creating
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Stupid
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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?
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Men
Morning
June
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At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.
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Heart
House
White
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What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks increasingly like the first Clinton presidency. Which is to say, high-minded ideals, lowered execution, half truths, outright lies (and imaginary flights), take-no prisoners politics, some very good policy ideas, a presidential spouse given to wallowing in anger and self-pity, and a succession of aides and surrogates pushed under the bus when things don't go right. Which is to say, often.
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Ideas
Lying
Self
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