Quotes About Newscasts

We are inflicting opinion in our newscasts like never before. That was never done and never taught in our journalism classes.

Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.