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David Brinkley

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News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)


— David Brinkley


#thought-provoking

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.


— David Brinkley


#absolute power #history #never #numerous #politicians

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.


— David Brinkley


#being #camera #front #just #looking

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.


— David Brinkley


#fantastic #happening #illusion #in fact #kinds

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.


— David Brinkley


#only #television #terrified #way

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.


— David Brinkley


#bricks #firm #foundation #him #lay

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.


— David Brinkley


#function #give #news #performs #same

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.


— David Brinkley


#candidate #convention #first #mean #moon

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.


— David Brinkley


#city #filled #important #people #washington

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.


— David Brinkley


#american #good #i #school #school system






About David Brinkley

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Did you know about David Brinkley?

This social history was largely based on his own observations as a young reporter in the city. David McClure Brinkley (July 10 1920 – June 11 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997. Their concern proved unfounded.

Over the course of his career Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards three George Foster Peabody Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He wrote three books including the critically acclaimed 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War about how World War II transformed the nation's capital.

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