If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

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Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the i... by Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured.

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Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must... by Brit Hume

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

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In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

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In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

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MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

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Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

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I would have to say that in this sort of feminized atmosphere in which we exist today, guys who are masculine and muscular like that in their private conduct, kind of old fashion tough guys, run some risk.... This guy is very much an old fashioned masculine, muscular guy, and there are political risks associated with that. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that’s how it is.

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Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue of the president's speech on Tuesday night that the terrorist organizations that operate in that area are now on the list.

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I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.

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We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced.

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We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

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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.

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It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from... by Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

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It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count? by Brit Hume

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

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We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

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How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for w... by Brit Hume

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

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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.

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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. And letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary what the facts are is not a bad thing.

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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.

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