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"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."
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"I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience."

"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."

"Just advertising departments with legs and high heels."

"There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."

"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

"A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper."

"Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."

"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."

"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."

"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."

"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."

"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."
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