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The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

TV news is not very instructive.

I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.