Zitat des Tages von Ben Bradlee:
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
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.
You never monkey with the truth.
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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.
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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.
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.
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
