Broadcaster Quotes

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here.

I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did.

How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country;

President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Allow your softer, more intuitive, and less dominating feminine qualities to rise to the fore, so that you're surrendering rather than dominating, receiving rather than broadcasting, loving rather than fighting.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.

The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

People are hungry for messages of hope and life. What are you broadcasting?

Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success.

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Why do you do smoky makeup, why do you try to act pretty on broadcast, etc.

For hip-hop where purity is important and masculinity plays a large part, I believe it's definitely a critique that could come out.

I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it.

It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when you’re processing with your brain, you’re broadcasting fields.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.