The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.

People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role …

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But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it-everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'-you have…