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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.
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Listening to Harry when he was at his best was like watching the game with your funny uncle, the one who used to play Double-A ball. Richard Roeper
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Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
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Laws are changed all the time, but the legislature primarily makes the law.
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You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.
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It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility. Paul Goldberger
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Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.
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Well, I was a referee. I've since retired from that. I was a fighter and I took up refereeing as a hobby after I retired from being a competitive fighter. And see, I've got no nose.
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Well, I think you've get to get people on the bench, and the police and people in law enforcement to recognize that we're all Americans. We're not black Americans, white Americans, red Americans: We're all Americans.
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Well, I think, unfortunately, the application of the system sometimes is not fair. I think that's something that we have to work out - work at very, very, very hard.
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Roger and I are now in our 20th year and I think people tune in because they know that for better or for worse, these are our opinions. Gene Siskel
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Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
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People take it for granted and they get to know all the different neighborhoods, and the impact of what's being provided can be lessened.
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Five years ago, I thought I was going to write for newspapers; if I worked really, really hard I could one day work for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Chuck Klosterman
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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is. Joel Siegel
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And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.
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This comparative indifference to clearness and consistency of thought is visible even in that chief object of our national concern, education. Irving Babbitt
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Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
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Genet was an actor in the play of his life, putting on masks, rearranging facts to suit his purpose and clouding himself in mystique.
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So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
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So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
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Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
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The studio should not have released this film.
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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. Malcolm Cowley
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The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
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We will work closely with the prosecuting authority to ensure that those who have betrayed the trust of shareholders are charged.
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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
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If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.
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If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.
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If you litigate, you're entitled to litigate and you're entitled to have the issues explored completely.
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If you've got a case that's due out or you have a trial starting Monday morning, and you haven't read the file, you haven't done the homework and done the research, you ought to be in there Saturday and if necessary Sunday. That goes with the territory.
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In the last few years there's been an explosion of bands that flame to the sky with one huge release - only to burn out just as quickly.