Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.