Andrew Heyward Quotes (23 Quotes)


    There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect.

    That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.

    This is the right time for Leslie to make a change and the right time for me to make a change,

    Ten years in this job is a really long time. These are tough assignments. I'm pleased I'm leaving in an amicable, civilized, mutually respectful way. Leslie felt it was time for a change and so did I.

    It's not a casting call. This is not a test of who should be on the evening news. It's a test of how best to present a broadcast that plays a distinctive and important role in today's crowded news landscape.


    When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.

    It's going to be an honest, fair, unvarnished look at what we do, and that means that it's an experiment. It's a risk. Not everybody approves of what we do. But I'm banking on the fact that people will also see how much effort we make about being fair and being ethical.

    The accusation that there was bias in CBS News' reporting of election night results is completely without foundation.

    Consumer products are always a help. It provides the company with good cash flow, if not a lot of growth.

    I plan to talk to a lot of people and structure my life in a way that might have a bit more flexibility and a lot more fun factor, ... I don't intend to rush (into a job). I have the luxury of time.

    Enough questions have been raised that we're going to redouble our efforts to answer those questions,

    It's an unusual situation, bordering on unique, given that Katie is one of the few bona fide superstars in the history of television news. It's not a routine talent change.

    Still later that night, ... another series of confusions took place -- including what at this juncture appears to be a very significant computer error made by the Volusia County Elections Department -- which led to another series of bad calls by television networks and newspapers across the nation.

    We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.

    The Big Three anchors used their extraordinary power to fight for serious and important stories, ... And in a business that has tended toward the trivial or tabloid, there's a risk that if the next generation of anchors doesn't have the clout, that it'll be up to a combination of them and their producers to lobby corporate higher-ups for reporting of serious journalism.

    He was also quoted expressing frustration about the news division's conservative approach to change, saying hyperbolically that he wants to bomb the whole building ... lead a revolution.

    Producers have been working on a number of interesting ideas this summer, ... Leslie and I have been in constant contact, and we're going to continue talking between now and Labor Day. We're making good progress.

    In today's environment, the audience expects to be more directly connected to news providers than it did historically and I think that's a good thing, ... We all felt strongly that letting people know that we are willing to engage in a healthy dialogue about what we do we think will enhance our reputation and give us a competitive advantage.

    CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report,

    feel bound by the traditional definition of what makes a CBS News anchor.

    In the days since, the question of who won the state of Florida has yet to be answered to everyone's satisfaction, ... That we were all too early in projecting a certain outcome is not open to debate.

    We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings.

    He has symbolized the 'CBS Evening News' for nearly a quarter century, ... He'll continue to apply his talents to everything he does at CBS News.


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