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"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."
"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."
"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."
"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."
"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."
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"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."
"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."
"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."
"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."
"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will."
"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
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