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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."

"The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic."


"It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6."


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


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