Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee
Benjamin Crowninshield "Ben" Bradleewas executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991. He became a national figure during the presidency of Richard Nixon, when he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon Papers and oversaw the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's stories documenting the Watergate scandal. At his death he held the title of vice president at-large of the Post...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth26 August 1921
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
I don't know about "any" publisher. But Katharine Graham and I had been working together for almost seven years and we had come to trust each other.
She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up with such bravery.
She was set out on such a difficult voyage,
She learned very well and very fast and you know, she learned the way the rest of us learned -- by making mistakes and not being scared of saying so.
I don't think I said it. I know who his source is, and I don't want to get into it. ... I have not told a soul who it is.
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.