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Media Quotes
"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 we're glazing eyes all across America."
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"The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
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"A free public broadcast license is a privilege."
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"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book."
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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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"I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story."
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"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers."
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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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"In the kitchen, I turn on a TV set that has hundreds of channels devoted to every conceivable subject including celebrity bunion removal (This week: David Hasselhoff). I tune in to one of the literally dozens of news shows, all of which feature a format of 55 percent celebrities promoting things, 30 percent emails from viewers, and 15 percent YouTube videos showing bears jumping on trampolines. While I'm catching up on these developments, I turn on the programmable coffeemaker, which I hope that someday, perhaps by attending community college, I will learn to program."
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"Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
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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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"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
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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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"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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"All the promise of a movie is in the trailer."
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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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"I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal."
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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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"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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"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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"As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down."
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"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."
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"Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous."
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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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"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."
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"There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays."
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