American - Journalist | May 19, 1934 -
People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.
Jim Lehrer
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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.
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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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Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
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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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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
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I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
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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 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 a journalist and that's what I do.
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I started as a print reporter.
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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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