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"I have the necessary lack of tact."
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
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Personal Development
"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."
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"Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public."
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"I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media."
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"Welcome to Sex Media, Where Fantasy Becomes Reality!"
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"In the kitchen, I turn on a TV set that has hundreds of channels devoted to every conceivable subject including celebrity bunion removal (This week: David Hasselhoff). I tune in to one of the literally dozens of news shows, all of which feature a format of 55 percent celebrities promoting things, 30 percent emails from viewers, and 15 percent YouTube videos showing bears jumping on trampolines. While I'm catching up on these developments, I turn on the programmable coffeemaker, which I hope that someday, perhaps by attending community college, I will learn to program."
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"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
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"Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media."
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"Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper."
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"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."
Job
"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."
Media
"To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique."
Thought
"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."
History
"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went."
War
"In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen."
Fool
"Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation."
Emotional
"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book."
Media
"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach."
Society
"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming."
Creativity
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