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James L. Brooks

"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

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"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

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"There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation."

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"I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV."

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"To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."

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"You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in."

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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."

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"News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television."

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"I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio."

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"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."

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Amber Hurdle

"Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is."

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