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Your Quotes for 16 June 2006 - News

For most of us, network television news is just part of life, but like all things it had to start sometime. On this day in 1947, Walter Compton went on the air to read the news on the DuMont network's flagship Washington City station, WTTG.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.
     - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
     - Burton Rascoe

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
     - Douglas Noel Adams, 1952 - 2001

In a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an In-Depth Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex.
     - Frank Mankiewicz

Fact that is fact every day is not news; it's truth. We report news, not truth.
     - Linda Ellerbee

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
     - Nicolas Bentley

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