Robert Thompson
Robert Thompson
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For most of the '60s, television was trying to hold the dyke. All of these changes and pressures built up throughout the 1960s and finally burst in January of 1971.
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What I see of change -- to the extent that there is change -- is a shift from trade-distorting payments to non-distorting trade.
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They like gimmicks and gizmos. They see these things as the constant promise in America that a new idea can change their lives. These people are frequently disappointed when they buy that can of spray to cover up their bald spot.
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They like gimmicks and gizmos, ... They see these things as the constant promise in America that a new idea can change their lives. These people are frequently disappointed when they buy that can of spray to cover up their bald spot.
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For all the enormous social and cultural upheaval and change and revolution which we've all come to know as cliched definitions of the '60s, prime-time television in this country managed to almost completely ignore it,
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The only difference is that television is such a predominant medium. ... Radio used to have sitcoms and doctor shows and cop shows and game shows and all the different genres, and television wrestled that primary entertainment away from it. But I think in terms of its impact on the medium of radio, yes, this is going to be a very big deal.
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We don't care if we're playing Michael Jordan, we want to win. They wore us down. We've got to get tougher.
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When Ellen came back with the Emmys (in November 2001), she was coming back to a culture that had been put on total and complete hold, ... a felicitous coincidence.
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This time, you mention the word 'Survivor' and you can almost hear the crickets chirping in the background and the sagebrush blowing across the town.
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This time, because there was something else a little more important in the headlines for these newsgathering operations to deal with, they virtually didn't cover this at all, ... Consequently, I would say on the order of several million people who probably would like to have watched 'Survivor' might not even have known it was on.
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There are religious activities; there are wedding receptions; there are a lot of family reunions there.
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This turned out to be a story that didn't even have enough traction to compete with the runaway bride, which blew Michael Jackson off the screen for a week and a half.
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What is so great about the variety show is that in many cases, it is completely uncorrupted. It hasn't been worn out through syndication,
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We got a lot of kids in the neighborhood going up and down these streets and everything, so it's sad. For the family's sake, you just hope that they would get their daughter returned.