ABC's David Brinkley, speaking to the Washington, D.C., meeting of the Radio-TV News Directors Assn. (quoted in the Wash. Journalism Review):
"I tend to place the human race into two categories: jour-nalists and everyone else. I am not much interested in anyone else... I'm unaccustomed to speaking to people who know as much as I do. Occasionally, I do speak
¾ usually to business groups¾and it will be the varnish manufacturers of lower Michigan, who don't know a god-damn thing. Whatever I say to them¾if I say 'Today is Tuesday'¾that's news. They didn't know it. So it's very easy to talk to a group like that, because you can say anything, and they think it's wonderful because they didn't know it before... Talking to journalists, who know everything¾ that's their business¾is altogether different . . . "|
Vol. 16, No. 6
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Issues Issue/No.: Vol. 16, No. 6 Date: December 01, 2004 02:26 PM Title: Shell, Chevron, and shenanigans
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