Quote #23

He seems to me like the last, best example of a tradition that had already started to vanish long before his death - the tradition of Martha Gellhorn and Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite, people who went and found out what was really happening before they started to talk about it. ~ John Simpson, BBC world affairs editor

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  1. It was, in the end, the kind of blow that the calm, seasoned, assuring voice had always softened for us, always relieved of its sharp edges…
  2. Inside that tall, handsome, elegant and eloquent exterior - inside that beat the heart of a fierce, but principled competitor... The last p…
  3. I'm fascinated by everything. There's just too much going on in too many places that I just daren't miss.
  4. Peter especially, I think, summarized for all of us the feelings that Dan and I have-the three of us have-when people often ask, 'Are you f…
  5. I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
  6. No one could ad lib like Peter... You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. ~ Barbara Walters, ABC News
  7. Finally this evening, a brief note about change. Some of you have noticed in the last several days that I was not covering the pope. While …
  8. He really did make us raise our sights. ~ Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America co-anchor

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