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I love this section:
You still need human sources who are going to tell you what’s going on. But you talk to young people and they say, if you were reporting on Watergate today, “You would have just gone on the Internet.” And I say, “Oh, what would you do — Google Deep Throat?”
Now it’s “get it on the Internet; get it on the website by noon,” which dilutes the intensity and the extent of the reporting in a way that may be crippling, and I think gives the upper hand to the people in the institutions like the White House that want to control the message. Just yesterday I did a seven-hour interview with somebody. When’s the last time somebody had the luxury of a seven-hour interview?