In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. |
It's their broadcast in the final analysis, ... I've always taken the position it's our job to make the program as attractive to the audience as we could possibly make it, but there are limits. You don't bring on dancing girls. |
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book. |
My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. |
My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went. |
My mother was born in the year 1899 and I was sitting there on New Year's Day in 1999 saying, 'God, I wish my grandfather had written a book about life in his time,' ... And then I thought, well, maybe I'll try and do it, and initially I sat down to do it more for the family than anything else. |
Now, ... my life is complete. |
obsession with being first with the obvious. |
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. |
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. |
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. |
Peter stayed and talked to the man for about 10 minutes. He asked about his life and listened. |
Peter was famously, at times notoriously, attractive to women. Even so, he only married four of them. |
Peter was self-conscious about his good looks and lack of formal education, |
She's always been by my side when I needed her, |