--- title: "4 Mort Crim Quotes - Famous Journalist (Like it is!)" description: "Mort Crim is an American author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-mort-crim-70422.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Mort Crim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-mort-crim-70422.jpg) # Mort Crim (1935) Journalist **4** quotes in **54** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Mort Crim is a journalist, best known for *Like it is!*. ## Quick Facts About Mort Crim Born July 31, 1935 Profession Journalist Notable works Like it is! ## About Mort Crim Mort Crim is an American author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before retiring from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997. Previously, he served as an anchor at WHAS-TV in Louisville (1969-1972), KYW-TV in Philadelphia (1972-1977) and WBBM-TV in Chicago (1977-1978). Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News president Roone Arledge to be a co-anchor for ABC's World News Tonight newscast in 1978. In 1984, he hosted a technology program on PBS, New Tech Times. Crim is also the founder of a Detroit-area integrated marketing agency, Mort Crim Communications, Inc., which has since operated under new ownership. Crim served as a spokesman for Majic Window Company in Wixom, Michigan, and for several years was featured in television commercials for that company. ## Quotes by Mort Crim > [We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mort-crim/we-re-all-entitled-to-our-own-opinions-but-none-of-us-can-afford-to/) Mort Crim [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/mort-crim-70422_entitled_we-re-all-entitled-to-our-own-opinions-b_1047858.png) > [Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mort-crim/any-good-parody-takes-a-grain-of-truth-and-exaggerates-it-for-the-big/) Mort Crim [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/928/mort-crim-70422_ask-me_any-good-parody-takes-a-grain-of-truth-a_1796669.png) > [Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mort-crim/today-we-may-face-some-boring-task-or-idle-conversation-that-feels/) Mort Crim [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04d/mort-crim-70422_boring_today-we-may-face-some-boring-task-or-id_1987551.jpg) > [I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mort-crim/i-didn-t-know-growing-up-what-i-wanted-to-do-i-finally-settled-on/) Mort Crim [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbe/mort-crim-70422_broadcast_i-didn-t-know-growing-up-what-i-wanted-t_2677027.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mort-crim/#itemlist", "name": "Mort Crim Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We're all entitled to our own opinions. 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