All news is an exaggeration of life. |
Forgive Us Our Press Passes. |
I had to fight to keep reality on television, ... Most of the time I lost. |
I think it's fair to say that the promise of confidentiality is based on the confidence that what you're being told is true, ... You lose right to any confidentiality if you lie. Sources are whistleblowers - they're people who'll tell you the truth to change something. |
I'm delighted about it myself, because I'm no longer primarily a television person. I love seeing that the people who exercised that absolute control have lost it, thanks to technology. |
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it. |
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made. |
There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country. |
to equate America with reality and truth, and get people overseas to accept that. |
Whenever I'm not sure about something, the ethics of something, the question I ask myself is, 'What would Murrow have done? What would Murrow say?' It seems strange after all these years that I still have him as a kind of symbol and an emblem to live by, but I do. |