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"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen."
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"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."
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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."
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"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it."
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"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
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"To the old, the new is usually bad news."
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"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
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"In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now."
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"If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news."
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"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
Crisis
"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."
Values
"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family."
Family
"Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it."
Possibility
"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
Advertising
"When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes."
Family
"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types."
Family
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
Success
"Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion."
Society
"In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective."
God
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