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Ed Bradley

"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."

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"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."

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"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

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"No news is good news unless it is told."

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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."

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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."

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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."

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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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"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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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."

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"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."

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"Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world."

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"But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun."
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"I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News."
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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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"There was no one around me who didn't work hard."
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"I knew that God put me on this earth to be on the radio."
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"And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that."
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"I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun."
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"You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to."
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"The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important."
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"So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy."
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