You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I recognized... very, very early on that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News were dependent on The Associated Press and Reuters. So my daily intake of information is from watching the newswires.
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.
I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.
If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
My role at NBC was president of 'NBC News.' I had that role for eight years.
The 800-pound gorillas of TV news are gone. When I was the White House correspondent at NBC, and Tom Brokaw was anchor, the reporters were protected.
If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.