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Carl Bernstein [1944-0] American

Rank: 103
Journalist

Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author.
While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Bernstein was teamed up with Bob Woodward; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.

Faith, Independence, Truth

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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.	Truth	101
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.		102
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.	Faith	103
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.		104
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.		105
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.		106
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.		107
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.		108
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.		109
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.		110
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.		111
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.		112
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.		113
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.		114
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.	Independence	115
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.		116
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.		117
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.		118
There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.		119

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