nprfreshair:washingtonpost:The heart and soul of The Post newsroom.Ben Bradlee speaking to Ter
nprfreshair: washingtonpost: The heart and soul of The Post newsroom. Ben Bradlee speaking to Terry Gross in 1995 about the day Richard Nixon resigned: “The wonderful part of journalism [is] that there’s never any time to say ‘Boy, I feel good,’ or ‘Boy, I feel bad,’ ‘Oh my god, I want to go out and celebrate!’ or ‘I want to go and grieve.’ You have an awful lot to do. In our case, we were pretty sure that he was going to resign but we didn’t know he was going to resign. We had a 20 page extra section ready to go describing the Nixon years, and we had the most important, complicated, difficult story to write about how come he resigned when he resigned and it was vitally important that that be written fairly, gracefully and with intelligence. We didn’t want to make a silly damn mistake the last day on a story we had spent close to 30 months on. … It consumed our lives. That’s what we did. We did Watergate.” Ben Bradlee On Journalism: Be ‘Fair’ And ‘Honest,’ But Don’t ‘Back Down’ -- source link