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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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"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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"The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter."
"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."
"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
"My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies."
"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
"My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."
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