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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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"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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"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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"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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"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."
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"Nothing in fine print is ever good news."
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"Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar."
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"In real life, events seem much less dramatic."
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"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."
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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
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"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."
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"News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute."
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"Men still control the news, both on and off camera."
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"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."
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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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"By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion."
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"Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth."
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