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Quote by David Brinkley
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley

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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. – David Brinkley

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People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world nothing is happening. – David Brinkley

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Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. – Art Buchwald, 1969

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. – Warren Chappell

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Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller

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