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"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."
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"I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks."
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"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."
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"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
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"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."
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"Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA."
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"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."
Government
"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."
Government
"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."
Government
"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."
Government
"As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society."
Society
"Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"
People
"So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."
Media
"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
Public
"If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters."
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"But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating."
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