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Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.


Robert McChesney

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HODDING CARTER That was great. Terrible journalism, but what great television.
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UNKNOWN I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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MO ROCCA Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
RICHARD J. DALEY I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
DAVID BRINKLEY I wish it wasn't like this. I sit and watch stuff on the television, I think, 'Why, why, why.
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ROBIN WILLIAMS My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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BERNARD XAVIER And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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MATT DRUDGE When we're covering a big story, we can put them on television. And we can be on their radio station...
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STEPHEN KING The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio...
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DAVID GERROLD The main thing we've done is look beyond television. It's not only television; other media affect se...
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AMY BLOOM Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
JESSICA SAVITCH Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
RAVI ZACHARIAS I never thought I'd see the day when there are no radio broadcasts out of Hollywood. This is a compa...
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the bro...
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JESSICA SAVITCH This is the complete explosion of the distribution model for television. Today is the last day the s...
JOSH BERNOFF I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head a...
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BIL KEANE We are strong, strong believer in the importance of local public television.
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LOUIS GARREL I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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ROBERT FRANK It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
ROBERT FULGHUM