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s at their best especially those who took the time to wade upstream through the torrent of digital rumors to chase down leads and verify facts and painstakingly put the pieces together to inform, and to educate, and to tell stories that demanded to be told.If anyone wonders, for example, whether newspapers are a thing of the past, all you needed to do was to pick up or log on to papers like the Boston Globe. (Applause.) When their munities and the wider world needed them most, they were there making sense of events that might at first blush seem beyond our prehension. And that39。s what great journalism is, and that39。s what great journalists do. And that39。s why, for example, Pete Williams39。 new nickname around the NBC newsroom is Big Papi. (Applause.)And in these past few weeks, as I39。ve gotten a chance to meet many of the first responders and the police officers and volunteers who raced to help when hardship hits, I was reminded, as I39。m always reminded when I meet our men and women in uniform, whether they39。re in war theater, or here back home, or at Walter Reed in Bethesda I39。m reminded that all these folks, they don39。t do it to be honored, they don39。t do it to be celebrated. They do it because they love their families and they love their neighborhoods and they love their country.And so, these men and women should inspire all of us in this room to live up to those same standards。 to be worthy of their trust。 to do our jobs with the same fidelity, and the same integrity, and the same sense of purpose, and the same love of country. Because if we39。re only focused on profits or ratings or polls, then we39。re contributing to the cynicism that so many people feel right now. (Applause.)And so, those of us in this room tonight, we are incredibly lucky. And the fact is, we can do better all of us. Those of us in public office, those of us in the press, those who produce entertainment for our kids, those with power, those with influence all of us, including myself, we can strive to value those things that I suspect led most of us to do the work that we do in the first place because we believed in something that was true, and we believed in service, and the idea that we can have a lasting, positive impact on the lives of the people around us.And that39。s our obligation. That39。s a task we should gladly embrace on behalf of all of those folks who are counting on us。 on behalf of this country that39。s given us so much.So thank you all, to the White House Correspondents for the great work you do. God bless you all. May God bless the United States of America.END 10:36 . EDT