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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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"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."
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"The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich."
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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
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"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."
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"I'm very wary of news on television."
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"Nothing in fine print is ever good news."
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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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"It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news."
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"When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain."
Act
"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
Accident
"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
"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
"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
"In this nation, leadership is dollars."
Leadership
"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
"I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins."
Leadership
"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."
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
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