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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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