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"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."
"No news is good news unless it is told."
"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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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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"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
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"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
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