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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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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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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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"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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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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"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press."
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"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."
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"The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close."
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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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"The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish."
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"I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two."
Loss
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
Communication
"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."
Life
"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."
News
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
Media
"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
Tax
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
Knowledge
"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."
Vision
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
Battle
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