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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.