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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

"I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once."

"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."
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"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."

"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."

"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."

"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."

"When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket."

"If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air."

"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."

"For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper."
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