Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.
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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
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I started as a print reporter.
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I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
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If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.
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If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
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My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
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On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
- Jim Lehrer Quote

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
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There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
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Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.
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We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
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