In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.Ted Koppel
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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Jennings, ABC's chief news anchor for more than 20 years, was also famously attracted to women, ... Even so, he only married four of them.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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He and I joked...that between the two of us, we'd put in 83 years at ABC News.
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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
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