DANIEL SCHORR:

Well, first of all, there have been some polls that indicate that people don't respect journalists anymore. But they used to… The whole idea of a guy with a hat band and a press card and drank too much and $25 a week who considered to be the defender of the public no longer prevails.

Most people regard the press, and especially the television press, as being a part of the establishment or an establishment of its own, and "they're not protecting us, they're just doing things in order to titillate us. They're giving us sex, they're giving us violence. And we don't regard them as being on our side." More and more, you get that, especially with regard to television. It is very difficult to take somebody, get millions and millions of dollars for sitting in front of a camera and reading off the teleprompter and say, "that's my First Amendment hero." It's very hard to do.