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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."
"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."
"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
"People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening."
"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
"This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
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