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Media Quotes
"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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"I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts."
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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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"President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is."
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"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
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"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!"
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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
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"Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching."
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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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"Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars."
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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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"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public."
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"The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress."
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"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
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"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
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"A free public broadcast license is a privilege."
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"Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline."
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"The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes."
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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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"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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"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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"It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses."
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"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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"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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"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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"For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on."
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"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
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"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China."
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"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it."
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"I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate."
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"I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited."
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"I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947."
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"For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media."
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"I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that."
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"There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays."
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