Phil Donahue Quotes
It’s a public event. We [television] should be covering it.
Convicted terrorist Timothy McVeigh has requested the public televising of his execution.
Phil Donahue, TV Talk Show Host, Statement on the television coverage of Federal executions, March 2001
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Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a friend in a hunting accident becoming the first U. S. Vice President to shoot a man since Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton. However, the Vice President and his staff did not make the shooting public till the next day and then by having a member of the hunting party call a small local, friendly, Texas newspaper. Finally, under great pressure the Vice President gave an interview to the Fox News Network, the network who had been most favorable in reporting on the administration.
Just quotation tells us something about Mrs. Roosevelt that is fascinating. Note that she tells us that she had her usual press conference. She typically had several press conferences a week. Before Mrs. Roosevelt, first Ladies did not have press conferences by themselves. She did almost wherever she went. She had more than the President did. And the presidents staff rarely knew what she was going to say. They found out about it in the next day’s newspapers. No first lady before or since then has ever had as much access to the press or as independent access as Mrs. Roosevelt.
Wikileaks needs whistleblowers to send it confidential and secret material in order to have something that people might be interested in. And then, it needs continuous money donations to keep the website going. This statement refuted critics who claimed that Assange and his colleagues were just criminal activists who had no public support or interest in what they were doing.
Phillip John Donahue is an American media personality, writer, film producer and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, later known simply as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio in 1967 and ended in New York City in 1996.
