Words matter. These are the best Dan Abrams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For anyone in the news business, just the name ‘Cronkite’ conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most ‘compelling’ or salacious.
Some people think I’m a total moron and I would hope most people think I’m very good at what I do.
People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. ‘What happened to the presumption of innocence?’ they ask at almost every turn. Well, I’m tired of it.
When I started Mediaite, I didn’t expect it to become the business that it’s become.
Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the ‘opposition party,’ in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.
The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.
I would never have thought, when I was in my 20s, that I would be 44 and single.
While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
There’s no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.
When you’re behind, you have to work harder. Women have had to work harder to get ahead, and now they are in a place where they are surpassing men.
I’m not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we’re talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I’m awful.
The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You’ve got people on the one side saying, ‘We need to be holding our police accountable.’ And you’ve got a lot of people who support the police saying they’re being ‘unfairly vilified.’
I am comfortable in my own skin.
In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn’t tell anyone about it – maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I’d been in an accident.
I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.
I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.
I like the feeling that I’m on the right side of history.
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
