The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.