Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyeris an American television journalist. Previously, Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. Early in her career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and closely associated with the president himself...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth22 December 1945
CityGlasgow, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Someone said to me... 'A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request. So why don't you just make the request? Why don't you just say, Could we work out this thing that makes me feel this way?'
The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.
Memory diffuses fact.
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.
You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and stamina and razor-sharp instincts. They are, thank heaven, here to stay.
I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.
Great questions make great reporting.
Hope changes everything, doesn't it?