Al Tompkins quote: "What's new is that entire newsrooms that once were one thing are totally different. The conversion of the traditional newsroom to the VJ newsroom is different."

There's no qualification for how you know what you know.
AL TOMPKINS

For those people who already believed we weren't careful enough as journalists, this gives them more...
AL TOMPKINS

When the governor himself seems to confirm the information, there are not many among us who wouldn't...
AL TOMPKINS

Unless there's overwhelming reason to withhold the information, the public's need to know should com...
AL TOMPKINS

It's never been an easy answer. And it now seems like the answer is changing more rapidly.
AL TOMPKINS

In order to grant such a shield, you have to determine who is a journalist, and there is no satisfac...
AL TOMPKINS

The Society of Professional Journalists in their code of ethics says that journalists should avoid c...
AL TOMPKINS

In journalism, anything that we do as journalists that confuses the public about our ability to be i...
AL TOMPKINS

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putti...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating u...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especi...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscap...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American traditio...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

At the end I asked them a rhetorical question: 'We still have work to do right?' ... But I believe w...
BRIAN TOMPKINS

We have a youthful team and sometimes youthful teams show inexperience under pressure. Even though w...
BRIAN TOMPKINS

In all games we've been getting fantastic support, ... It truly makes a world of difference to have ...
BRIAN TOMPKINS

[Geiger]'s been playing the best. It's a very simple kind of equation they all had an opportunity.
BRIAN TOMPKINS

American is a good team. It was a very even game. I thought they were actually more dangerous after ...
BRIAN TOMPKINS

It's a cliche to say, but Shannon really leads by example. It was a wonderful effort from a wonderfu...
BRIAN TOMPKINS

Both of them were extra inning games. We beat them the first time in 10 innings down there and this ...
BILL TOMPKINS

He was a great competitor, great player for us, a three-year starter. I think it is an honor for me ...
BILL TOMPKINS

When you walk six batters and make a couple errors, you haven't played your best game. The key thing...
BILL TOMPKINS

We were on the right side this time, it's a different year. It was a well-played game by both sides....
BILL TOMPKINS

With the parks, I don't think we should be the test case for that.
BILL TOMPKINS

It was the best game we've played this year. It was a step in the right direction. We played good Wa...
BILL TOMPKINS

I'm a little disappointed we didn't get more runs after that one big inning where we had six runs. W...
BILL TOMPKINS

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right ...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of la...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

That's something we've been able to lean on all season. We've had a number of players step up in dif...
RYAN TOMPKINS

But Coble has been smart enough to dodge the charges. He's been sympathetic to everyone's concerns a...
WARREN TOMPKINS

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wis...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

This is a loophole that needs to be closed. Their ought to be full sunshine and limits on these acti...
WARREN TOMPKINS

They are the scourge of American politics. They are unaccountable and play by a different set of rul...
WARREN TOMPKINS

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally ...
WARREN TOMPKINS

It does say (McCain) starts out in a pretty good position.
WARREN TOMPKINS

In some ways this (poll) is a comment on the optimism of Americans and on what New Year's means to p...
TIM TOMPKINS

One can only hope that our horizons widen as we grow taller.
J.R. TOMPKINS

What the customers told them is they wanted something with an automatic transmission, with a steerin...
WAYNE TOMPKINS

I know that their constituents will not be receiving a lot of benefits.
DENNIS TOMPKINS

We believe the more people learn about this proposal, the stronger opposition will be.
DENNIS TOMPKINS

If we demand higher standards from our students, we obviously have to give them the resources to mee...
DENNIS TOMPKINS

If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cu...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that do...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small ...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking thing...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get p...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with th...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Look at how fast technology is developing.
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a l...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

They're very difficult to guard one-on-one and they got to the free-throw line and made their free t...
RYAN TOMPKINS

He's less active now. He doesn't want to go outside; all we do is play football,
ROBERT TOMPKINS

We hope that this program will lead people, especially those who care about design, to look at Times...
TIM TOMPKINS

Long story short: The end.
PAUL F. TOMPKINS

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro...
AL-HASAN AL-BASRI

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAU

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ...
AL FRANKEN

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf...
AL JARDINE

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We l...
AL ROKER

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c...
AL GORE

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have acce...
AL FRANKEN

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTON

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy ...
AL SHARPTON

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...
AL SHARPTON

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If yo...
AL OERTER

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
AL OERTER

It was like a tidal wave went through the city.
AL OERTER

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.
AL OERTER

I never had technique.
AL OERTER

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at eac...
AL OERTER

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTON

Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognitio...
AL PEACOCK

I learned years ago you can shape your own destiny if you do get involved. There have always been a ...
AL PAZAR

There's a lot of overcapacity in the fishery that will need to be addressed. Probably that won't be ...
AL PAZAR

Every time you lose that pre-soak, the danger increases. It's the race to fish.
AL PAZAR

Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. Th...
AL PAZAR

It broke down this year, with both sides not able to agree, and so we went into our usual free-for-a...
AL PAZAR

That's fine if you keep playing this record over and over. It is going to be a very strong spring. T...
AL PARISH

It's going to continue to make realtors very happy. I haven't seen any unhappy people in that indust...
AL PARISH

Even though it's not the biggest property, it's getting in excess of $300 a night for a room. That's...
AL PARISH

It doesn't mean that everybody's condo went up 37 percent. It means they built more expensive condos...
AL PARISH

CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT

That's Fry. She settled down and came through for us.
AL NORTHINGTON

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.
AL NORTHINGTON

We didn't finish in that game. Tonight we finished.
AL NORTHINGTON

We made some mental mistakes, but we're still so young, and that's going to happen. Our four freshme...
AL NORTHINGTON

I'm so proud of these kids. It's a wonderful feeling to see these kids progress. This is a win for t...
AL NORTHINGTON

The president believes very strongly that this is going to have a major, major impact on economic gr...
AL HUBBARD

The recovery will be paid for by the federal taxpayer and it will add to the deficit.
AL HUBBARD

It's coming from the American taxpayer.
AL HUBBARD

The last thing in the world we need to do is raise taxes and retard economic growth.
AL HUBBARD

Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy...
AL HUBBARD

The president is totally committed to Social Security reform.
AL HUBBARD

Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We'...
AL HORFORD

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villa...
AL HORFORD

It's great to see your son doing his job on the court. But it was no surprise.
AL HORFORD

There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times...
AL HORFORD

We're so anxious for the game to get here.
AL HORFORD

We lost most of our scoring (from a year ago). But we knew we were going to come out here and make t...
AL HORFORD

You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.
AL HORFORD

You could just see it in their eyes. That's when we go for the kill.
AL HORFORD

I am feeling a lot better; I'm taking care of myself drinking a lot of fluids and stuff. So I feel p...
AL HORFORD

They were leaving the wrong guy open. When you leave Lee, he's going to make you pay for it.
AL HORFORD

[He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu...
AL HIRT

I don't know, ... I do not know.
AL HIRT

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
AL HIRT

The New Orleans I knew is gone, ... It's never going to come back. I'm just grateful I had my years ...
AL HIRT

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die befo...
AL HIRT

Rich could play way better than Krupa.
AL HIRT

Old Sharkey had a fat sound, man. He could blow like wild fire and when he played, I am telling you,...
AL HIRT

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
AL HIRT

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
AL HIRT

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested ...
AL HIRSCHFELD

We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a...
AL HIRSCHFELD

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done, ... I am only intereste...
AL HIRSCHFELD

When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experienc...
AL HIRSCHFELD

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
AL HIRSCHFELD

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
AL HIRSCHFELD

$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY

Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY

This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY

I know the feds give us the same amount of money, as does the state, as does the county. But there's...
AL HARTKOPF

A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap.
AL HARTKOPF

I knew it was going to end up badly.
AL HARTKOPF

If it causes a little bit of difficulty for us, it just does.
AL HARTKOPF

I have very mixed feelings on it. I totally get where the commissioners are coming from. I see the p...
AL HARTKOPF

Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS

It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS

I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS

I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS

They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS

He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS

You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS

Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS

It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS

[In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS

We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively...
AL HARRINGTON

When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice co...
AL HARRINGTON

I'm sure he is from everything I hear, but I've got to wait until that happens.
AL HARRINGTON

When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media kn...
AL HARRINGTON

It's been a long time coming.
AL HARRINGTON

I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a f...
AL HARRINGTON

I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as so...
AL HARRINGTON

That's nonsense, and it's not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anyt...
AL HARRINGTON

It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace f...
AL HARRINGTON

Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
AL HARRINGTON

It helps us determine which candidate might be the right match for Blue Valley Middle School.
AL HANNA

We are looking for a well-qualified, experienced administrator.
AL HANNA

He already knows a great deal about us and our operations. We think he will work well with staff and...
AL HANNA

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.
AL HANNA

This is a very tough loss for us. We felt like we had the game, but I have to give them credit. They...
AL HAMMELL

We'll really get into the fundamentals. It's something we hope to build on each year.
AL HAMMELL

I was impressed by how well our players interacted.
AL HAMMELL

It's about getting the younger players excited about baseball. We'll look forward to doing it each y...
AL HAMMELL

It was a great clinic for the first year.
AL HAMMELL

We had our players helping out with instruction.
AL HAMMELL

It's just something I've been doing for 10 years.
AL HAMMELL

We had about a total of over 50 kids this year.
AL HAMMELL

I think it is a very, very prestigious award for Story County. It shows that we are truly energy eff...
AL HAHN

If we don't go any further than we are right now, it is an extreme award for Story County.
AL HAHN

It is wonderful to be able to imagine a building system of this magnitude and then have it work at t...
AL HAHN

It goes to show that the first year wasn't a fluke.
AL HAHN

Our defense was just fantastic as it has been all year. It has been the backbone of our team all yea...
AL GUTHMAN

Our kids play hard and when you play hard, you don't notice people in the gym.
AL GUTHMAN

We've had their number the last two years, but you have different players on both teams. We'll have ...
AL GUTHMAN

We wore them down. It was a matter of our conditioning and our kids stepped up and hit their free th...
AL GUTHMAN

Our last message at halftime was something that we had said early in training camp. We just reminded...
AL GROH

When he comes back, it's going to be like picking up a free agent at midseason. We'll try to get him...
AL GROH

That means you're not going to cover those guys because if you start covering the short guys in zone...
AL GROH

Certainly the period of rehab would indicate that. Sometimes, these sprains of ankles and feet take ...
AL GROH

Certainly the period of rehab would indicate that, ... Sometimes, these sprains of ankles and feet t...
AL GROH

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.
AL GROH

We just kind of kept grinding. I was pleased with that: that idea about being a grinder and not gett...
AL GROH

They keep grinding and grinding until it has a cumulative effect on the opposition. It tends to wear...
AL GROH

His whole game has progressed. It probably would be unfair to Emmanuel to say that it's one thing or...
AL GROH

It's not going to be a six-month situation. We have to prepare for the duration.
AL GREEN

GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement...
AL GREEN

This is a ministry that has been given to me.
AL GREEN

Texas was settled by people who were willing to fence in their property and protect it. We take seri...
AL GREEN

It's you I want, but it's Him that I need.
AL GREEN

There's a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from be...
AL GREEN

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't ...
AL GREEN

What's new is that entire newsrooms that once were one thing are totally different. The conversion of the traditional newsroom to the VJ newsroom is different.

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What's new is that entire newsrooms that once were one thing are totally different. The conversion of the traditional newsroom to the VJ newsroom is different.

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