If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.