American - Journalist | May 19, 1934 -
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
Jim Lehrer
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I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.
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There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.
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You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
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There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
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If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.
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If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.
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I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.
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A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
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We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
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Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.
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People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
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