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Lowell Bergman
American
Journalist
Born:
Jul 24
,
1945
Being
Looking
News
People
World
You
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I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television.
Lowell Bergman
News
Experience
Behavior
Programs
Corporate
Bit
Press
Papers
Television
Television News
Independent
Magazines
Both
New
Like
Underground
Operations
Doing
Times
York
Reporting
Stone
Rolling
Rolling Stone
Quite
Quite A Bit
New York
New York Times
Public
Regional
Newspapers
Early
Career
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
Lowell Bergman
People
Organization
Wind
Backgrounds
Wealthy
Fact
New
Terrorist
Up
Privileged
May
Violent
Terrorism gets people's attention.
Lowell Bergman
Terrorism
People
Attention
Gets
When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
Lowell Bergman
Relationship
You
Financial
Be Nice
Giving
Advice
Nice
Would
Would-Be
Attorney
Know
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.
Lowell Bergman
Government
Rights
Few
Broadcast
Way
Press
Has-Been
Rights Movement
Ability
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
About
Restrictions
Write
Almost
Almost Anything
Been
Wake
Very
Established
Movement
Anything
Vietnam
Basically
You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman
You
Hero
Publish
Broadcast
Broadcasting
Out
Find
Because
Expect
Report
Going
Want
Story
Newspaper
Your
Company
I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.
Lowell Bergman
You
Big
Preparation
Enough
Interviews
Intimidated
Tell
Students
Handle
My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.
Lowell Bergman
Work
Good
News
You
Network
Look
Make
Camera
Role
Person
Anyone
Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.
Lowell Bergman
You
People
Phone
Wait
Will
Background
Say
Record
Since
Particular
Call
Sort
Been
Sources
Off
Up
Confidential
Where
Woodward
Anything
Them
Epidemic
Even
Washington
Ever
Actually
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