Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle
The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.
If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.
There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.