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"As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse."
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"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."
"I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."
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"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."
"People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story."
"People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry."
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