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I Have Never Pretended To Be A Great Writer. I Am Totally Immodest About Being A Great Reporter And A Good News Writer. I Write Fast And I Write Accurately, Nearly As Accurately As Anybody Can Be, And That's My Skill.

I Was Lucky Enough To Have One Of The First High School Classes In The Country.

I Don't Think People Ought To Believe Only One News Medium. They Ought To Read And They Ought To Go To Opinion Journals And All The Rest Of It. I Think It's Terribly Important That This Be Taught In The Public Schools, Because Otherwise, We're Gonna Get To A Situation Because Of Economic Pressures And Other Things Where Television's All You've Got Left. And That Would Be Disastrous. We Can't Cover The News In A Half-hour Event Evening. That's Ridiculous.

Old Anchormen, You See, Don't Fade Away. They Just Keep Coming Back For More. And That's The Way It Is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

In All My Years As A News Commentator I Was Never Once, Able To Tell The Truth, About Anything.