Fox News to the Principal’s Office!

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Food-Fight TV

“It goes against the personal style of me and (former co-host) Robert MacNeil—talk about ducks out of water. We would be like baseball players trying to play football. MacNeil always said, ‘If you want to make heat on television, that’s easy. If you want to make light, that’s hard. Let’s do the hard part.’

“I can throw some meat out and have people yelling at each other in five minutes. But if you want to make light, that's harder. Heat is great TV, but it isn’t great journalism.

“Compared to the food-fight TV, we seem like an oasis in a screaming desert.”

—Jim Lehrer, host, “NewsHour” on PBS, 2000 URL

Editor’s Note: Put the mashed potatoes down, Beck!

The Detroit riot, 1967.

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