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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."
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"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."
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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
Cultural
"I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s."
College
"So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time."
Time
"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."
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"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
Journalism
"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
People
"Television's not going read stories to you."
Television
"And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with."
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"I know what the structure of the language is."
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"I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department."
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