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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."

"Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates."

"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."

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

"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."

"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."
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"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."

"The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about."

"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."

"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."

"A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction."

"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
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