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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
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"When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair."
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"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"
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"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
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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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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
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"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."
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"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."
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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."
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"We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books."
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"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
Media

"In real life, events seem much less dramatic."
Life

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."
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"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."
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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news."
Woman

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."
Attention

"Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots."
Honor

"The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best."
Talent

"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."
Job
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