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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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"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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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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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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"I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news."
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"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."
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"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."
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"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
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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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"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
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"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

"In this nation, leadership is dollars."
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"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

"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

"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
Leadership

"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."
People

"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
Leadership

"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."
News

"It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed."
People

"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."
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