Fred W. Friendly Quotes

Fred W. Friendly was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. He originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. October 1915 – 3. March 1998
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Famous Fred W. Friendly Quotes

“What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.”

Open Mind Interview https://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep498?start=467

“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.”

Source: US News & World Report 12 Jun 67, After becoming professor of broadcast journalism at Columbia University)

“Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine… It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies.”

Quoted by Rushworth M Kidder “Videoculture” Christian Science Monitor 10 Jun 85

“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”

Commenting on New Yorker staff writer Alastair Reid's use of composite characters.
p. 65, The interplay of influence: mass media and their publics in news, advertising, politics, Wadsworth series in mass communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Edition 2, Wadsworth, 1988.

“You gotta be willing to be lucky.”

Friendlyvision https://books.google.com/books?id=fXOYguSu1YUC&lpg=PA71&ots=YYCewibym8&dq=You%20gotta%20be%20willing%20to%20be%20lucky.%20fred%20friendly&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q=You%20gotta%20be%20willing%20to%20be%20lucky.%20fred%20friendly&f=false

“No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.”

p.vii, Foreword, Presidential Television, A Twentieth Century Fund report, Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin, Lee M. Mitchell, Basic Books, 1973.

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