“But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.” PeopleIfsWorldReasonHellNewsEarsSeriesFeaturesBoxingWorld SeriesBoxing Matches Author:Roone Arledge
“The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.” IfsWorldShouldLittlesAbleNewsDestructionSeriesDecadesAround The WorldRestaurantsVisibleShopsChicagoVietnamBeatenShowing UpLebanon Book:Killing Orders Source: Killing Orders
“We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.” EndsStoriesLiteratureHugeDevelopmentNormalMajorsNewsElectionSeriesAvailableFloridaViewersWatchersSamplingNews Stories Author:Brit Hume
“My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh.” Life IsMy OwnNewsHollywoodSeriesCastsValuableFakeVegetablesAnchorsMy Own LifeKabbalahBrunchNews Anchors Author:Jon Stewart
“No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensPlayWholeTogetherAmericaPastNationsPresidentPiecesStyleFiguresNewsSeriesVicesJournalistInterviewsAddressesFriendlyEntityConferencesVice PresidentGreat NationsEntirety Author:Peggy Noonan
“The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.” YearsFirstsShowsTogetherFormNightCareersComedyMiddleMomDadLateNewsSeriesMy DadMy MomVarietyJimmyDeanLate NightEd Sullivan Author:Brian Henson
“What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.” WellsMayNextNewsSeriesHopefullyMore TimePilotsFestivalsParamount Author:Jo Brand
“I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.” MenYearsWellsLife IsCollegeNewsWindowSeriesObviousSolemnSpecialistsEditorialsYaleEpigramsWell Rounded Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald