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To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

Ted Koppel

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

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Tact

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

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Anticipation

Journalism

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

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Job

Responsibility

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

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America

Eyes

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

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Ideas

Programming