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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
"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."
"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."
Explore more quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby
"The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market."
"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."
"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."
"Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong."
"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
"While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales."
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