There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.
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The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.Katherine Graham
I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to be skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.
Katherine Graham
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