Objective Journalism And An Opinion Column Are

I Think He [composer Joe Raposo] Was The First Man Who Kissed Me On The Cheek.

I Don't Think People Ought To Believe Only One News Medium. They Ought To Read And They Ought To Go To Opinion Journals And All The Rest Of It. I Think It's Terribly Important That This Be Taught In The Public Schools, Because Otherwise, We're Gonna Get To A Situation Because Of Economic Pressures And Other Things Where Television's All You've Got Left. And That Would Be Disastrous. We Can't Cover The News In A Half-hour Event Evening. That's Ridiculous.

For Many Years, I Did My Best To Report On The Issues Of The Day In As Objective A Manner As Possible. When I Had My Own Strong Opinions, As I Often Did, I Tried Not To Communicate Them To My Audience. Now, However, My Circumstances Are Different. I Am In A Position To Speak My Mind. And That Is What I Propose To Do.

A Handful Of Us Determine What Will Be On The Evening News Broadcasts, Or, For That Matter, In The New York Times Or Washington Post Or Wall Street Journal. Indeed It Is A Handful Of Us With This Awesome Power.and Those [news Stories] Available To Us Already Have Been Culled And Re-culled By Persons Far Outside Our Control.

When The Eagle Landed On The Moon, I Was Speechless—overwhelmed, Like Most Of The World. Couldn't Say A Word. I Think All I Said Was, 'wow! Jeez!' Not Exactly Immortal. Well, I Was Nothing If Not Human.