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"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
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"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."

"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."

"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."

"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."

"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."

"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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"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."

"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."

"The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists."

"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."

"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."

"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
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