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"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
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"The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more."
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"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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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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"I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced."
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"I'm very wary of news on television."
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"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."
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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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"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
People
"Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think."
Change
"Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make."
Money
"We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right."
Fight
"That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people."
People
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
Leadership
"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
Country
"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
Father
"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
Life
"But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives."
Experience
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