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"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
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"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve."
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"It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about."
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"If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true."
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"You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism."
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"Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly."
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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."
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"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
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"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
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"You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate."
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"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
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"I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam."
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"You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important."
Money
"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
Journalism
"There was no one around me who didn't work hard."
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"My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father."
Family
"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
News
"I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age."
Age
"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game."
Experience
"Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me."
Family
"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important."
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