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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."

"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."

"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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"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."

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

"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."

"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."

"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."

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

"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

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

"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."
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