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Media Quotes
"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game."
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"Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media."
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"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."
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"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
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"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions."
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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
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"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."
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"News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows."
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"President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is."
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"The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."
"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."
"Don't believe everything that you read in the newspapers."
"By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities."
"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
"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."
"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."
"Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed."
"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
"Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students."
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