Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer
James Charles "Jim" Lehreris a former American journalist and novelist, and is the former executive editor and a former news anchor for the PBS NewsHour on PBS. He is also known for his role as a debate moderator in U.S. presidential election campaigns, and is an author of numerous fiction and non-fiction books, which draw upon his experience as a newsman, and his interests in history and politics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
If Letterman tells a joke with a piece of information in it that you didn't know before, that's fine with me, that doesn't bother me.
In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.
I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left.
I am now finding more and more journalists saying, 'It has taken a tragedy of enormous proportions, but maybe, maybe we are returning to our roots,' and those roots are in the business of information, not entertainment,
In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.
Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.
No two people see things the same way.
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
I'm not in the being-annoyed business.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.