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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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How Did You Become a Writer?

In the book, i refer to my five s there as an apprenticeship. The initial apprenticeship really was being a copy boy, being a dictationist. And then when i was 19, they made me a reporter for the sumers. I would sit at night, especially if i was working a night shift, and i would take off the ik of the city editor.

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