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"The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN."
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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

"The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending."

"All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity."

"I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits."
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"There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins."


"In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously."


"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."


"It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force."


"You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't."


"Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised."


"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."


"Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news."


"In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want."


"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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