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Norman Lear

"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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Donna Grant

"To the old, the new is usually bad news."

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Donna Grant

"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."

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Donna Grant

"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Norman Lear
"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."

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Norman Lear
"In this nation, leadership is dollars."

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Norman Lear
"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."

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Norman Lear
"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."

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

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

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Norman Lear
"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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Norman Lear
"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

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Norman Lear
"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."

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Norman Lear
"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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