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Media Quotes
"If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day."
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"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."
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"The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible."
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"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages."
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"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."
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"Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile."
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"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."
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"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
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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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"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
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"Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh."
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"The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
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"I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
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"I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate."
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"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
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"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
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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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"The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good."
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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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"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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"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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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong."
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"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
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"CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas."
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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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"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
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