It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
"David McClure Brinkley" was an American newscaster for NBC News/NBC and American Broadcasting Company/ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he News presenter/co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly television news/news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report/Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week (ABC TV series)/This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He wrote three books, including the critically acclaimed 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nation's capital. This social history was largely based on his own observations as a young reporter in the city.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More David Brinkley on Wikipedia.If I were objective or if you were objective or if anyone was, he would have to be put away somewhere in an institution because he'd be some sort of vegetable.
Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
They use [how much] money they've spent as a measure of success because there's very little else to measure.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
Is this a horrible future? Or actually a return to what we've always had in the past? Think of old villages. Everybody knew everything about everybody else. Strangers were intimidating and worrisome. This will be like the village our ancestors grew up in, only with 7 billion people.
Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.
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