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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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"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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"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."
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"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."
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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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"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."
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"So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time."
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"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
Journalism
"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."
People
"I know what the structure of the language is."
Language
"So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense."
People
"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."
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"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."
People
"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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