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“Some newspaper stories can be presented in entertaining ways; they can make you laugh; they can make you weep. But they are not charged with providing exaltation or fantasy. In the most entertained nation in the history of the world, newspapers exist to provide the citizenry with truth. Sometimes the truth can have a moral point. Sometimes the truth is painful. Sometimes the truth is banal. But it has to be true. It must have a granitelike foundation in fact. The mere stacking of facts is not, of course, enough. The facts must be organized into a coherent whole. They must tell a story. And the great story usually tells us something larger than the mere facts, something about what novelists and philosophers have called, perhaps too grandly, the human condition.”

TruthTruth TellingJournalistic Integrity
Book:News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
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“Sometimes, in fact - and I’ve heard others say the sane thing - I have to read a story about developments in Italy in the foreign press to get a good, quick overall view of what is going on. And this is particularly true if you’ve been away and missed the first few days of coverage; Italian news stories rarely give you any background.”

NewspapersJournalismItalian CultureNews CoverageJournalistic Integrity
Book:My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
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“There are three kinds of writers of news in our generation. In inverse order of worldly consideration, they are: 1. The reporter, who writes what he sees. 2. The interpretive reporter, who writes what he sees and what he construes to be its meaning. 3. The expert, who writes what he construes to be the meaning of what he hasn’t seen. ... All is manifest to [the expert], since his conclusions are not limited by his powers of observation. Logistics, to borrow a word from the military species of the genus, favor him, since it is possible to not see many things at the same time. For example, a correspondent cannot cover a front and the Pentagon simultaneously. An expert can, and from an office in New York, at that.”

HumorJournalistic Integrity
Book:The Press
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“Loro avevano ammazzato, più borghesi che partigiani, avevano fatto falò di cascine, e razziato, avevano sforzato donne, intruppati uomini e preti perché gli portassero le cassette delle munizioni e gli facessero scudo da noi. Erano venuti in tre divisioni, a setacciare tutto e tutti. Ma, chiedo perdono ai morti e alle loro famiglie, scusa a quelli che ci han perduta la casa e il bestiame, ma io credo che allora tedeschi e fascisti non si siano salvate le spese. Non fu abilità nostra, né che loro fossero tutte schiappe. Fu, con la sua terra, la sua pietra e il suo bosco, la Langa, la nostra grande madre Langa.”

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Book:Lettere 1940-1962
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