Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Carl Bernstein (American Journalist)

Carl Bernstein (b.1944) is an American journalist and author. He and Robert Upshur “Bob” Woodward (b.1943,) while investigative reporters for the Washington Post, wrote a series of articles about the Watergate scandals that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Born in Washington, D.C., Bernstein began part-time work at The Washington Star at the age of 16 and later dropped out of the University of Maryland to work full-time as a reporter. He joined the Washington Post‘s metropolitan staff in 1966, specializing in police, court, and city hall assignments, with occasional self-assigned feature stories.

In June 1972, Bernstein and Woodward started investigating a burglary at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C.’s Watergate complex. Their investigative reporting gradually revealed the connections between the burglary and a converging pattern of crimes that ultimately incriminated Nixon himself, forcing his resignation in the face of otherwise certain impeachment.

For their reporting, Bernstein and Woodward earned almost every major journalism award. They won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post. Together they wrote the bestseller All the President’s Men (1974; adapted as the film The Final Days, 1976,) an almost hour-by-hour account of President Nixon’s last months in office. With its details of how reporters and corporate news organizations operate under pressure, All the President’s Men has become a classic work in the history of American journalism.

In 2003, Bernstein and Woodward sold papers relating to their investigation of the Watergate scandal to the University of Texas.

Bernstein’s other works include Loyalties: A Son’s Memoirs (1989,) his memoirs of growing up in a family of leftist sympathizers during the McCarthy era, and the biography A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton (2007.)

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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
—Carl Bernstein
Topics: Action, Media, News

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing.
—Carl Bernstein
Topics: Television

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
—Carl Bernstein
Topics: Culture

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies.
—Carl Bernstein
Topics: Media

The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
—Carl Bernstein
Topics: Journalism

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