We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.