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Everybody Knows That There's A Liberal, That There's A Heavy Liberal Persuasion Among Correspondents.....anybody Who Has To Live With The People, Who Covers Police Stations, Covers County Courts, Brought Up That Way, Has To Have A Degree Of Humanity That People Who Do Not Have That Exposure Don't Have, And Some People Interpret That To Be Liberal. It's Not A Liberal, It's Humanitarian And That's A Vastly Different Thing.

I Think It Is Absolutely Essential In A Democracy To Have Competition In The Media, A Lot Of Competition, And We Seem To Be Moving Away From That.

Be Kind To An Old Man.

As Anchorman Of The Cbs Evening News, I Signed Off My Nightly Broadcasts For Nearly Two Decades With A Simple Statement: "and That's The Way It Is." To Me, That Encapsulates The Newsman's Highest Ideal: To Report The Facts As He Sees Them, Without Regard For The Consequences Or Controversy That May Ensue.

A Handful Of Us Determine What Will Be On The Evening News Broadcasts, Or, For That Matter, In The New York Times Or Washington Post Or Wall Street Journal. Indeed It Is A Handful Of Us With This Awesome Power.and Those [news Stories] Available To Us Already Have Been Culled And Re-culled By Persons Far Outside Our Control.