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

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  Politics

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• We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

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  Literature, Viewers, Cables

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• We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

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  News Stories, Florida, Sampling

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• Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

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  Believe, Opportunity, Interesting

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• The presidents poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesnt disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

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  Fun, Mass Destruction, People

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• You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

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  Morning, Yesterday, Firsts

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• There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little [American flag] lapel pins.

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  Attitude, Issues, Flags

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

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  Sunday, People, Would Be

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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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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  People, Alarms, Add

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• The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Play

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• CNN is a more diverse brand. It's spread out over more products over there.

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  Cnn, Literature, Spread

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

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  Battle, Literature, World

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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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  Couple, Differences, Helping

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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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  Running, Thinking, Years

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

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  Careers, Two, Long

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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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  Cnn, Long, People

  "Extended Interview: Brit Hume". "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• I suspect people channel-surf, as they tend to everywhere. But I'm told that we're not much on at the State Department, so we'll have to look into that.

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  People, Looks, Literature

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Weakness, Literature, Wells

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• Fox News has learned some United States investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the United States, who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11, 2001.

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  Believe, September 11, United States

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• I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

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  Thinking, People, Giving

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

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  Numbers, Cnn, Literature

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