Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print. |
The Best of the CBS Evening News. |
The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn't have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it. |
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. |
The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck |
The publisher has to be the moral force of the newspaper. She carried herself as a queen ... and she was a queen in her own field. |
The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw. |
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. |
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. |
There's a difference between that and showboating. There's definitely [some] showboating. Usually it's obvious, to us journalists anyway -- whether it's obvious to the public, I don't know. |
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. |
They're going to have to eat their words. Some of the things I've seen her do on Today when there's breaking news, I thought she's done a fine job. ... Her own journalistic instincts come to the fore. |
This opens the door on another chapter of history. |
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion....It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. |
To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. |