Ted Koppel

“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.”

“The need to be first is not as important as the need to be right.”

“The single biggest change in the last 20 years in this country has been the splintering of the media.”

“Ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.”

“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.”

“The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.”

“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”

“The quality of the debate is poor, and there is a great danger in that. We are talking about our country's future.”

“The job of the anchor is to be the honest broker of information.”

“Bias is not necessarily a bad thing. It's the unshakable conviction that you're right that's the problem.”

“It becomes an interactive thing: Government announces a policy, the press reports it, and then the public reacts.”

“The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly splintered audience.”