 The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN. |
| In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously. |
| Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. |
| There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. |
| We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we're working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job. |
| We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced. |
| I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before. |
| This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody. |
| When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing. |
| Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news. |
| The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it. |
| We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. |
| MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming. |
| Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way. |
| If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. |
| In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. |
| I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately. |
