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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
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"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media."
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