I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
I'm so privileged to sit where Diane Sawyer and Peter Jennings sat.
If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.
I wanted to be like Phil Donahue for the internet generation.
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.
Katie Couric is kind of my soulmate.
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
In my next life, I want to be Jann Wenner.
Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.
My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
I got the famous Oprah hug!
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
