American - Journalist | February 6, 1940 -
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
Tom Brokaw
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I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
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What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
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Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
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I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
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Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
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What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
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TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
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Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
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David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
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The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
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