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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

"No news is good news unless it is told."

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."

"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."

"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."

"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."
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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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"Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq."

"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."

"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."

"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."

"If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war."

"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."

"I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need."

"I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months."

"During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer."

"We're going to try to create some programs that are going to generate viewer interest and appointment viewing. We still will have news on Headline News."
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