Author: Carl Bernstein

Quotes

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.

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.

- Carl Bernstein

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

- Carl Bernstein

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

- Carl Bernstein

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.

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.

- Carl Bernstein

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.

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.

- Carl Bernstein

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

- Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

- Carl Bernstein

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

- Carl Bernstein

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.

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.

- Carl Bernstein

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