But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
The fact that populism is flourishing internationally, far from the Electoral College and Fox News, suggests that Trump's specific faults might actually be propping up American liberalism.
Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.
Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
The idea that Americans are more divided than ever, entrenched in ideological camps and unwilling to meet in the middle, is so pervasive that one hardly goes a single hour without hearing about it on a cable news show.
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
I'm so impressed with the quality of the 'Evening News.'
The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.
There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them.
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
