To Say That We Are Closer To

As Anchorman Of The Cbs Evening News, I Signed Off My Nightly Broadcasts For Nearly Two Decades With A Simple Statement: "and That's The Way It Is." To Me, That Encapsulates The Newsman's Highest Ideal: To Report The Facts As He Sees Them, Without Regard For The Consequences Or Controversy That May Ensue.

In Seeking Truth You Have To Get Both Sides Of A Story.

The Fact That You Are Here Tonight Gathered Together With Us Testifies To The Fact You Understand The Need For This Organization And The Need For Redoubling Our Efforts In This Organization To Try To Assure That Democracy As Represented By The United States Must Depend Upon A Total Freedom Of Religion, Which Is Written Into Our Constitution, Of Course, And The Mere Suggestion That Anyone Could Maintain That One's Patriotism, One's Devotion To One's Country Can Be Judged By One's Religion Is So Vile, So Vile That We Have To Take To The Streets Indeed And To Put It Aside.

A Handful Of Us Determine What Will Be On The Evening News Broadcasts, Or, For That Matter, In The New York Times Or Washington Post Or Wall Street Journal. Indeed It Is A Handful Of Us With This Awesome Power.and Those [news Stories] Available To Us Already Have Been Culled And Re-culled By Persons Far Outside Our Control.

America's Health Care System Is Neither Healthy, Caring, Nor A System.