Journalist Quotes

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.
One of the reasons why when Elvis dies or the Son of Sam is captured ABC News' ratings go up is because people who don't normally watch news are watching then. The question is, do you want to attract people who don't watch network news or fight over the people who do?
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.
People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.
People essentially like local news better than network news.
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.
The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
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