I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
From Tom Brokaw
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.
It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
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