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Gay Talese

"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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"News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all."

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"You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it."

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"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."

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"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

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"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."

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"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."

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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."

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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."

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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."

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"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."

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