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877 Jonathan Landay: I kind of straddle the line between beat reporting and investigative reporting, because National Security issues are probably the most opaque that are dealt with by the government. Because that's just the nature of the beast. And therefore, to be able to report on National Security issues you have to be able to do investigative reporting.

897 Jonathan Landay: That tends to dilute entrepreneurialship -- and the desire to do investigative stuff. 'Cause it's hard, it's tough, it's time consuming.

1058 Jonathan Landay: We have the two source rule here, which is, "You get something. You gotta get a second source on it -- at least a second source."

1836 Jim Lobe: The media had a lot of options as to how it was going to cover the run-up to what was almost certainly going to be a war. And they could have done as Knight Ridder did, which was really putting a lot of investigative resources and good people into finding out what was going on behind the scenes --

2070 Greg Mitchell: Some of the toughest critics, at least among reporters, who actually dug deep behind the evidence after the war was over -- To look at the rationales for the war -- To look at who is feeding the administration information -- To look at where all of this false information about weapons of mass destruction came from -- That some of the best reporting -- and in some cases, some of the only reporting -- came from places like Knight Ridder, it came from UPI, it came from the Associated Press. Some people who are not usually associated with that kind of ground-breaking journalism or real scoops or investigative journalism that could win awards.