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
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And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me.
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
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I never wanted to be a pundit.
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I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
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Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.
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Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?