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Christopher Lasch

"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."

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"The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place."

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"The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more."

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

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

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"The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer."

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"They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news."

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"I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture."

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"We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman."

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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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"Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours."

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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

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