But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

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• Gregg Easterbrook:

  But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh th

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtai

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad a

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 mi

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entert

• Gregg Easterbrook:

  I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember,