"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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"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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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."

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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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"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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"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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"The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer."

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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."

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"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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