[Beneath the outside eloquence] beat the heart of a fierce competitor, ... Good Morning America. |
[Six days after 9/11, during a conspicuous - and still worth pondering - appearance on David Letterman's show, Rather declared that] George Bush is the president, he makes the decisions. ... Wherever he wants me to line up, just tell me where. And he'll make the call. |
[This week, former] Evening News ... wouldn't let him do it. |
a necessary process to deal with a difficult issue, at the end of which four good people have lost their jobs. |
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. |
Again, general, congratulations on a job wonderfully done! |
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. |
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. |
anchors in more ways than one. |
And now the sequence of events in no particular order. |
Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena? |
Artie Bloom was the most accomplished director of television news programs in history. The record shows he was the best. |
At the core, the red, beating heart of reporting is something with intelligence, something with quality, something that aspires to excellence. |
Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance. |
By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls. |