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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
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"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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"In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours."
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"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press."
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"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."
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"The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close."
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"Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs."
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"Marlo taught me things I thought I knew."
Thought

"Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?"
Television

"I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that."
War

"Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing."
Pressure

"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana."
Idea

"We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever."
Children

"At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous."
Being

"Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent."
Cheating

"I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others."
People

"In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame."
Irish
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