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Media Quotes
"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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"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."
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"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
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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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"This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood."
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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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"There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented."
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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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"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone."
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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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"If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying."
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"What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed."
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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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"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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"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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"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."
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"I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
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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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"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre."
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"I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process."
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"As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be."
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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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"In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them."
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"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
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"When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want."
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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."
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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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"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."
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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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"Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact."
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