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" 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. "

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" We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated. "

" I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before. "

" The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN. "

" 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. "

" Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative. "

" If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem. "

" This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody. "

" Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list. "

" My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are. "

" Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve. "

" If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. "

" CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there. "

" It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force. "

" There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins. "

" Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. "

" 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. "