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Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news. ↗

— Brit Hume

#back #basic #coverage #far #get

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air. ↗

— Brit Hume

#because #certain #cnn #could #day

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground. ↗

— Brit Hume

#competitive #exploding #get #ground #had

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing. ↗

— Brit Hume

#bad #bad thing #business #colorful #did

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson. ↗

— Brit Hume

#been #bill #comfortable #conservative #democratic

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't. ↗

— Brit Hume

#attractive #attractive people #cnn #commands #could

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

#captivating #desires #eloquence #entirely #hearers

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ↗

— David Hume

#greater importance #importance #life #man #oyster

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. ↗

— David Hume

#corruption #gives #rise #things #worst

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

#growth #knowledge #learning #retarded #scholastic