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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
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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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"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
Policy
"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."
Press
"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."
News
"The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job."
Job
"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."
Humor
"When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket."
Thought
"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."
Audience
"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
News
"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
Information
"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air."
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