“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
Fred W. Friendly: 7 quotes1 like
Famous Fred W. Friendly Quotes
“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)
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.
Open Mind Interview http://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep497
“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
p.vii, Foreword, Presidential Television, A Twentieth Century Fund report, Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin, Lee M. Mitchell, Basic Books, 1973.
