I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.

The new national campfire - radio.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

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.

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

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