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Media Quotes
"There's a way in which these guys all think absolutely media, day and night. Access is what it's all about, so they spin 24 hours a day and that's a problem."
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"These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them."
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"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages."
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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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"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship."
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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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"Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars."
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"The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys."
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"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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"Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims."
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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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"President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is."
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"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."
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"Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers."
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"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."
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"If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong."
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"It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be."
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"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
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"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then."
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"Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those."
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"Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America."
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"If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists."
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"Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now."
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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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"I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print."
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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
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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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"With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV."
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"They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'"
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"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
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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 was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947."
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"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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