Fred W. Friendly Quotes
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.
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.
No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.
