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.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press. - Fred W. Friendly
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
- Fred W. Friendly
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking. - Fred W. Friendly
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand. - Fred W. Friendly
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best. - Fred W. Friendly
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. - Fred W. Friendly
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
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 medi… - Fred W. Friendly
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 medi…
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. - Fred W. Friendly
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it. - Fred W. Friendly
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us. - Fred W. Friendly
What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.
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