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Media Quotes
"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
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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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"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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"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers."
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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 far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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"My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes."
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"Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."
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"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."
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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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"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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"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 it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."
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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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"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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"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
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"Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals."
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"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."
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"As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be."
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"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."
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"This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood."
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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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"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
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"Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world."
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"Just because I publish pornography does not mean that I am not concerned about the social ills that all of us are."
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"There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented."
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"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages."
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"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
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"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
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"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."
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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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"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."
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"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."
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"The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing."
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