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Carl Bernstein on His First Job, Newspaper Love, a Great Prank, and Scandals That Are “Worse Than Watergate”

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I've Done All These Things, but I Don't Want to Be a Journalist

Karl Causeta was a reporter at the washington star for five years. He wanted to be an editor, so he joined ben bradley's paper in elizabeth alto. But after six months of working under sedepsten and coit hemley i knew i had to leave. I applied for jobs at the new york times but didn't get hired. The san francisco chronicle also turned me down because they weren't hiring college graduates. So karl decided to go back to his old job with sidepste as their city editor. And that is probably the greatest education you could ever have - it gave him what he needed to become one of the best

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