Ed Bradley Quotes

I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

I had a couple of chances to go inside the broadcast booth when I was out of the car in 2016 and loved it a lot.

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.

At 14, I began working in radio. I ran the board at a little radio station in Dallas.

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

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

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.