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Media Quotes
"If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture."
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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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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
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"I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words."
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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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"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
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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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"Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"?"
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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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"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."
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"The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good."
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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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"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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"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
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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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"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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"And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet."
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"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
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"I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post."
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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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"Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions."
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"CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
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"I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
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"I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible."
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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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"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 was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
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"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal."
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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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"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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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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"Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show."
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"Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims."
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