Robert MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, also known as Robin MacNeil, is a Canadian American novelist, and former television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 January 1931
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
boston children wife
I have children in Denver, Boston and London, England; and my wife and I have been to see all of them; and they to us in New York.
absolutely apparent channels dozens given news serious stayed uniqueness
Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic, this is the one that has stayed absolutely gimmick-free and, therefore, its uniqueness is more apparent now, I think, than it was when we started 30 years ago,
commercial needed network news seemed
It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,
manners certain diplomacy
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
rivers growing language
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
spirit
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
uplifting children heart
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
retirement new-york thinking
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
thinking air opinion
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
pundits wanted
I never wanted to be a pundit.
luxury play able
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
summer brother home
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.
commitment years lasts
Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.
city determined permanent seems stay york
We have determined to stay in New York City as our permanent home, because it seems to be the most interesting place in which to live as we get older.