Shannon Bream Quotes

Media really excited me. As an undergrad, I majored in radio, television, and film and did internships with CNBC and CNN. My first job was at Sky News in London.

I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

Growing up, I was going to school for broadcast journalism. I wanted to be Oprah.

Very early in my career, I almost went to journalism school.

I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I chose Journalism by default. I always loved TV, and I had no idea what else to do, so I studied what interested me.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

It is a free press...There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.

The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

I had a great ten years at Fox, but it's also been fun being a free agent.

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

I studied journalism at Binghamton University, even interning for NBC's longtime anchor Carol Jenkins. Before graduation, I told my parents I wanted to pursue broadcast journalism.