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There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that’s very important for the American public to know.

Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media.

Don’t overstate Fox News. It’s still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don’t feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.