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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
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"Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are."
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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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"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."
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"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
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"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."
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"The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking."
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"I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system."
Humor
"This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it."
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"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
Leadership
"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
Politics
"People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening."
Wisdom
"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."
Media
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
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"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."
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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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