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.
More Quotes by Carl Bernstein
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.
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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.
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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.