Kovach did not comment specifically on Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine's upcoming choice of a new curator, except to say that he hopes his replacement will be "a quality journalist with crystal-clear values."
To be a journalist in a free society, suggested Kovach, is to have "one of the most important jobs that a person can do in this world."
The civic duty of a journalist, he said, is "more important than celebrity, salary, bottom-line pressures, or technological pressures."
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