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When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.