Fairness is not an attitude. It’s a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
Ted Cruz has struggled, and Donald Trump, of course, has been the big winner the last two outings. And the polling that we have, some of it is a week old. In fact, I think that’s the latest poll suggests that he has a strong lead here. And therefore should be expected to win.
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.
It’s a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
It’s perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.
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.
CNN is a more diverse brand. It’s spread out over more products over there.
People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.
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.
It’s not unilateral when it’s 16 to 3! Can’t you count?
How can we be isolating ourselves when it’s 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?
Nobody’s profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
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.
You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn’t.
There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.
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.
I don’t think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn’t play, they could strangle us in our crib.
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.