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"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."

"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
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"You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on."


"The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role."


"What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news."


"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations."


"I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things."


"My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else."
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