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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly."
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"One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?"
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"One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want."
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"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
Lie
"I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?"
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"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."
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"I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile."
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"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."
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