Ben Bradlee Quotes

United States, Newspaper Editor
August 26, 1921 – October, 21, 2014.

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was an American newspaperman. He was the executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991. He was also an advocate for education and the study of history, including working for years as an active trustee on the boards of several major educational, historical, and archeological research institutions.

Also known as Journalist, Scientist

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

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- Good
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

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- Real
- Mistake

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

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- People
It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

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They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

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- Good
- May
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.

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- Lazy
- Anonymous

There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.

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- Remember
You never monkey with the truth.

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- Truth
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

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- Champagne
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

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Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

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- Good
- Today

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

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- Truth
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

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The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

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