John Chancellor
John Chancellor
John William Chancellorwas an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993...
loss president monkeys
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.
nixon relationship
Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship.
american-journalist government public wants watching whatever
The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.
came cleaned girl glass night slump tonight
She was our Windex girl tonight. She went to the glass and just cleaned it all night long for us. She had been in a slump lately, but she came out of it tonight and went to work.
ball carried good team
She's a good ball player. She put her team on her back and carried them all the way back.
game held tough type
We held on in a tough game. We've been in this type of game before this season, and we held on. We got this first game out of the way and now we get to play again.
information add journalism
The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.
would-be palestine knows
I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.
people innovation liberty
Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.
feel-good principles action
Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.
successful people sticks
The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.
anger pride envy
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.
character people tragedy
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
light long atheism
I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.