Linda Ellerbee

When there is good news, and it is news, we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

We call them twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they've read the news - or if they've blown dried their brains, too.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

- All from Linda Ellerbee

About:

Linda Jane Smith was born at Bryan, Texas on 15 Aug 1944 and grew up in Houston. After graduating from Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee she held a number of visible correspondent and anchor jobs at NBC using her married name: Linda Ellerbee. A year at ABC brought her the first of her four Emmys. She now heads her own production company where, along with a number of documentary projects, she has produced "Nick News" for children on Nickelodeon. Despite a raft of prestigious awards she has remained an insightful critic of the news business and of some of the stars that populate that firmament.