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" The reporting has always been what drives me. "
David Muir
Drives
Reporting
Me
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" If you go to certain cable news shows, you're generally going to hear the viewpoints that you already have reported back to you. I think there's no harm in that. "
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" The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble. "
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" I think there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have. "
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" I still like the physicality of papers. "
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" We have to find a way to let everyone know when they're watching that we hear them, that we're asking their questions on all ends of the spectrum. "
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" I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat. "
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Where
Diane
" I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long. "
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" I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are reflected all over the country. "
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" Every evening, I would excuse myself from playing in the backyard and go inside to watch the evening news... I wanted to get out there and see the world, and as a kid, I knew that Peter Jennings had a thirst and hunger to travel the world, too. "
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Travel
World
" I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do. "
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Week
Work
" If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more. "
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Way
Positive
" There's no such thing as alternative facts. "
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Thing
Alternative
Facts
" Our job every single night is to call out hypocrisy on both sides to make sure we're holding Republicans accountable and Democrats accountable, that we're holding the president accountable for promises made. "
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Job
Hypocrisy
" While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor. "
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Massachusetts
Run
Anchoring
" I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts. "
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You
Facts
Noise
" When I travel the country, I am often struck by how much we actually have in common. It's much more powerful than how much there is that's reported that divides us. "
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Travel
Powerful
Country
" I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered. "
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Want
People
Ask
" At 25, I found myself anchoring coverage of President Clinton's impeachment trial from Capitol Hill for WTVH-TV in my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I then covered Hillary Clinton's first Senate run. "
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Hill
Hometown
Run
" Not a day goes by when we're not grateful to see that viewers seem to be responding. "
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Grateful
Day
Viewers
" A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job. "
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You
Life
Job
" I think that with our 'Made in America' segments, where we go out to these factories all around the country, is essentially giving people a high-five and signal to them that we're in this together. "
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Giving
Think
America
" Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve. "
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Bond
America
Conversation
" When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever. "
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Evening
Day
Think
" I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice. "
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" I think I was always a curious kid. "
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Curious
" It's a business driven by curiosity. If you don't want to go out and learn about the world and see the place, it's the wrong business. But if you do... I've had an unbelievable front row seat. "
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" I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril. "
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