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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"The pressure to be timely with news has increased every year."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"Nothing in fine print is ever good news."
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"Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar."
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"There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long."
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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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"A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated."
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"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it."
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"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."
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"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."
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"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
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"I worked for a newspaper in Europe for, I lived in Europe for about seven years, so I worked in this sort of a yellow journalism kind of a thing, it was like a scandal sheet."
Journalism
"Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff."
Time
"And that's very important, too, 'cause a lot of people just assume everyone's a Democrat, or everyone's a Republican or whatever, and they're not. And that's a really important thing to adhere to."
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"It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news."
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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers."
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"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics."
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