The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.