John McMartin Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Francis McMartin (August 21, 1929 – July 6, 2016) was an American actor of stage, film and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article John McMartin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Debate Over Covering a Controversial Story
Foreign editor:
I don't think either Metropolitan or National should cover the story. I don't think we should cover the story, period. It's a dangerous story for this paper.
Bradlee:
How dangerous?
Foreign editor:
It's not that we're using unnamed sources that bothers me, or that everything we print the White House denies, or that almost no other papers are reprinting our stuff.
Simons:
What then?
Foreign editor: [[George McGovern|McGovern; [Hubert Humphrey|Humphrey; [w:Edmund Muskie|Muskie]
Look, there are two thousand reporters in this town, are there five on Watergate? When did the Washington Post suddenly get the monopoly on wisdom? Why would the Republicans do it? ]'s self-destructed just like ], ], the bunch of them. I don't believe this story. It doesn't make sense.
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