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Media Quotes
"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
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"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
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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'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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"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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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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"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 have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
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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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"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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"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 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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"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 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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"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
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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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"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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"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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"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."
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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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"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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"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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"If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying."
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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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"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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"I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts."
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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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"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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"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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"Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals."
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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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"We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV."
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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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