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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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"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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"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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"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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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."
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"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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"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."
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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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"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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"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."
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