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"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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"All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up."
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"No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through."
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"They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it."
People
"Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after."
People
"This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job."
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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."
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"It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."
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"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."
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"In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too."
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"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
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"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."
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"There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy."
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