Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

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A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

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No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

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I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

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News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

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Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

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The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

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