The truth is like oxygen. You can tell when it’s not there.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Absence of Truth
A
Financial Trails
F
Follow the money, always follow the money.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Disregarding Truth
D
They tried to make the truth irrelevant.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Documentary Evidence
D
Sometimes the key to the whole story is just one document.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Journalism Ethics
J
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.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Wonder of Survival
W
They still wonder why they lived when so many others died.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Precious Fragility
P
The feeling she had was that everything was suddenly very precious, very fragile, and very perishable.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Massive Casualties
M
In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Peaceful Morning
P
The morning was still; the place was cool and pleasant.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
City Disappeared
C
Hiroshima had disappeared under a thick, churning foam of flames and smoke.
John Hersey – Hiroshima