Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbeeis an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, D.C. correspondent, and also as host of the Nickelodeon network's Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Her work on NBC News Overnight was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth15 August 1944
CityBryan, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Linda Ellerbee quotes about
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
A good time to laugh is any time you can.
When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.
I think laughter may be a form of courage As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.
The best time to laugh is anytime you can.
A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"
Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.
The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.
I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.