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Media Quotes
"Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information."
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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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"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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"Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form."
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"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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"This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood."
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"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
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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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"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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"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope."
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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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"Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around."
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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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"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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"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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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
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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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"Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars."
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"Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages."
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"Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world."
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"I think we're glazing eyes all across America."
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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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"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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"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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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 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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"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers."
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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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