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Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.
I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.