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What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Citizens
Knows
Nations
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Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Television
Worst
Afford
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A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Euphemism
Journalism
Lying
Composite
Dishonest
Lie
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TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Teacher
Bigger
Printing Press
Reports
Teaching
Tools
Since
Tv
Greatest
Any
Press
Story
Tool
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The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Crap
News
Pride
Networks
Everything Else
The One Thing
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No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Kings
Power
Media
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Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Firsts
News
Today
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Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Commodity
Pork
Bellies
National Park
Park
Supposed
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Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Machines
National Parks
Pork
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I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Jobs
Agony
Thinking
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While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.
Fred W. Friendly / Television Program Creator
Issues
Judging
Media
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