When The Anchorman Is Wearing

Putting People In A Room And Strapping Wires To Their Wrist To Find Out If I Make Them Tingle When I'm Telling Them About Beirut Is A Long Way From Edward R. Murrow.

I Believe In Tomorrow And I Will Be Part Of It.

Some Of The Qualities That Go Into Making A Good Reporter - Aggressiveness, A Certain Sneakiness, A Secretive Nature, Nosiness, The Ability To Find Out That Which Someone Wants Hidden, The Inability To Take 'no' With Any Sort Of Grace, A Taste For Gossip, Rudeness, A Fair Disdain For What People Will Think Of You And An Occasional And Calculated Disregard For Rules - Are Also Qualities That Go Into Making A Very Antisocial Human Being.

I've Heard It Said That The First Law Of Journalism Is To Confirm Existing Prejudice, Rather Than Contradict It.

[my Father] Was Generous With His Affection, Given To Great, Awkward, Engulfing Hugs, And I Can Remember So Clearly The Smell Of His Hugs, All Starched Shirt, Tobacco, Old Spice, And Cutty Sark. Sometimes I Think I've Never Been Properly Hugged Since.