Quotes
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.
Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable?
What we do and say and show really matters.
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle.
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
We thrived as I said on the pioneer spirit of CNN. We adored being the little network that could.
We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.
U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.
They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.
Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.
Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.