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Media Quotes
"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."
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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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"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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"Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism."
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"The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations."
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"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
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"I was in a profession that received a lot of media."
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"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
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"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
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"Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals."
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"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
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"News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this."
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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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"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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"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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"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
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"I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly."
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"A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades."
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"Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?"Not like that, I said."No," he agreed. "Not like that."
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"Eventually the story would spill over into the regular media."
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"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"
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"None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen."
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"If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying."
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"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
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"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
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"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
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"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."
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"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing."
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"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
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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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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
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"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
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"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
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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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