Amanda Bennett Quotes
It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because we want to and for our readers because they deserve it.

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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
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Sadly, journalism doesn't always state the obvious.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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You don't usually get treated unfairly. You usually get what you deserve.
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It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.
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Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.
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No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love—they have to earn it.
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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
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I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
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Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
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Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
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It's a time of great uncertainty, but we are focused on doing great journalism for ourselves because we want to and for our readers because they deserve it.