I think there will be a more serious, thoughtful treatment of September 11 [in the future].

This will not be an instant book, ... This event touches upon so many important issues that it deserves thoughtful treatment from someone, like Horne, who experienced it first hand and can vividly capture each moment, but also has the ability and access to provide the critical long view.

If any good comes from the catastrophe, it will be that it signaled the beginning of the media's reassertion of aggressive, in-your-face reporting, in which it confronts government wrongdoing, rather than just swallowing the government's public-relations handouts.

She will certainly bring a fresh face to the program. But a woman serving as sole anchor on an evening network newscast is so long overdue that it can hardly be regarded as making a powerful statement. ... CBS had a chance to revolutionize the evening news by totally remaking the show. Instead, they are putting a new person into an old, boring format.

“The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. Thefuture will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those whobelieve in the beauty of their dreams.”

Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future