"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."

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"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."

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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."

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"Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do."

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"One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost."

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"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."

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"For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media."

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"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."

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"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state."

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"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."

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"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."

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