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There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, "Ah, it's those damn liberals," and a whole group of liberals saying, "It's all those damn conservatives"... If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

— Peter Jennings

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Source: Interview for KETV NewsWatch 7 as quoted at The Omaha Channel (19 October 2004)
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