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Media Quotes
"If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action."
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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression."
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"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China."
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"I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous."
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"I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
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"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public."
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"The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place."
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"I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months."
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"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
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"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
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"Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show."
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"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."
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"If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media."
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"I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media."
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"I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts."
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"As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up."
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"This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood."
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"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
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"For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on."
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"Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching."
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"No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did."
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"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
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"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
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"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
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"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."
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"Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed."
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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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"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way."
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"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
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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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"CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
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"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."
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"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
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"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."
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