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This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Directed by John Ford, John Ford Productions, 1962.

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All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.

Leo Tolstoy

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Tolstoy, Leo. Letter to Prince V. P. Meshchersky. 22 Aug. 1871.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy's Letters: 1828-1879, translated and edited by R. F. Christian. Vol. 1, University of London The Athlone Press, 1978.

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It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!

Naked Gun

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A.J. Liebling

The Wayward Press

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Liebling, A. J. "The Wayward Press: Do You Belong in Journalism?" The New Yorker, 7 May 1960.

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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on the people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

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Malcolm, Janet. "The Journalist and the Murderer." The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 1989 - 20 Mar. 1989.

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Forget everything you've seen on television and in the movies. There won't be any last minute, surprise witnesses. No one will break down on the stand with a tearful confession.

Philadelphia

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Philadelphia. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Clinica Estetico/TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Norvell. 11 June 1807.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Norvell, June 11, 1807." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library Classics, 1998.