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"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
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"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."
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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."
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"Television is intensely personal."
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
Job
"But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up."
Music
"I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department."
Journalism
"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing."
Music
"Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject."
Want
"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
Cultural
"You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works."
Journalism
"If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience."
People
"It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them."
Friendship
"And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture."
Nation
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