Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there’s a criticism to be made today, it’s that the press isn’t doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.
I’d like to be a song and dance man.
Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.
I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.
I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they’re not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they’re preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can’t be very good journalists.
We’ve got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary and police.
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling “civilized?” And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor – not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort’s ancient and historic buildings.
Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.
For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
We’re living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.