Dave Barry Quotes

American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

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 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

'Frontline' does 10 news shows a year, so one a week is quite an undertaking.

My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He brought an entirely different style to what we were doing.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

Let me clarify a few things about TV news on the national level at NBC and MSNBC. We write our own stories. There is no teleprompter for reporters. No traveling makeup artists or stylists. And there is very little sleep.

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

At the end of the day, my focus will be to make the 'Evening News' as strong from an editorial perspective as it possibly can be.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.