Our news organizations and our reporters should be going after the best obtainable truth, not the sensational, on-the-surface truth ... But instead of going after the truth, we look through the lens of how much it will cost and of those who would like us not to tell the truth.
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the best obtainable version of the truth. It's a simple concept, but difficult to do.Carl Bernstein
We had very little time -- Bob and Felt in the garage together had very little time to have meetings and conversations in the course of a couple years. The object was to get as much information, as much context, as much certainty of things we had obtained elsewhere,
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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better understanding of finding the truth in politics.
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Beyond this, I can only give you my personal assurance that our sole motivation in working on 'The Final Days' was to report the truth neither money nor any preconceived disposition regarding Mr. Nixon was a factor in our reporting.
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