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"Journalism as theater is what TV news is."
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"The markets where we've got real good presence are the older, more mature markets like Australia, and Western Europe - where we've only got 6,000 stores, compared to the US with 13,000."
"The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're told by the coaches, flacks, hustlers and other "official spokesmen" for the team-owners who provide the free booze ... and: 2) A Roget's Thesaurus, in order to avoid using the same verbs and adjectives twice in the same paragraph.Even a sports editor, for instance, might notice something wrong with a lead that said: "The precision-jack-hammer attack of the Miami Dolphins stomped the balls off the Washington Redskins today by stomping and hammering with one precise jack-thrust after another up the middle, mixed with pinpoint-precision passes into the flat and numerous hammer-jack stomps around both ends...."
"Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views."
"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
"Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining."
"Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively."
"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
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"The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty."
"Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality."
"Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press."
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