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"I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print."
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"Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world."
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"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
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"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
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"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality."
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"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
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"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
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"The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."
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"The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg."
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"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."
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"Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us."
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"Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped."
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"Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations."
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"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."
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"The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals."
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"The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified."
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"I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media."
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