My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
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We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
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On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.
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Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.
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People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.
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Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.
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I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
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If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.
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