Press
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- The media can be an instrument of change: it can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or it can, hopefully, awaken people and change minds. I think it depends on who's piloting the plane.
- We're not going to cost-cut our way to prosperity or to greatness in this business.
- I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.
- People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.
- From cable television to the Internet, we are now living with a political class which has a financial and cultural interest in conflict rather than in governing. The result: Every incremental development is invested with apocalyptic significance.
- Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can’t throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.
- Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of men who cause events but of men who read reports of them aloud.
- If journalism in a democracy is about anything, it is about bringing the expansive rhetoric of politicians down to earth and holding them accountable for how their ideas translate into policies that affect actual human beings.
- We politicians, I believe, have colluded far too long with the media. We rely on them. We seek their favor. We live, we die politically because of what they write and what they show, and sometimes that means we are not courageous or spineful enough to stand up when wrong has occurred.
- Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.
- The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.