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"Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written."
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"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
"Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book."
"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it."
"It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me."
"To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right."
"I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam."
"Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing."
"Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things."
"Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening."
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"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."
"When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition."
"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."
"So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license."
"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."
"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."
"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent."
"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun."
"The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races."
"Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions."
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