“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, né le 30 octobre 1915 à New York et décédé le 3 mars 1998 à Riverdale , était le président de CBS News et le créateur, avec Edward R. Murrow, d'un programme télévisé de reportage du nom de See It Now.
George Clooney joue le rôle de Fred Friendly dans le film qu'il a réalisé, Good Night, and Good Luck..
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“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)
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.