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"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."
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"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
"An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper."
"What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed."
"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
"I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue."
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"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."
"A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government."
"All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged."
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."
"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."
"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."
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