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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
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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
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A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly -
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
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 -
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly -
'You gotta be willing to be lucky.'
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.
Fred W. Friendly