I think it's fair to say that the promise of confidentiality is based on the confidence that what you're being told is true, ... You lose right to any confidentiality if you lie. Sources are whistleblowers - they're people who'll tell you the truth to change something.
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Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done What would Murrow say' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do.Daniel Schorr
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
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I had to fight to keep reality on television, ... Most of the time I lost.
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