I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
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While there seems to be a major commitment now, historically there hasn't been. It's not an automatic thing where they say we gotta cover that.
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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.
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I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
Norma McCorvey
A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
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