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Media Quotes

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers"

"People forget about books. They're always just turning on the television, but reading a good book is the most nourishing thing you can do."

"Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you."

"Propaganda is lousy to live with and difficult to overcome"

"There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large"

"The image is everything"

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses"

"In California they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows"

"The whole celebrity culture thing—I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it."

"In a world where, let's say, everyone is blogging, it's difficult for a citizen to know what is really happening"

"The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments"

"Information is the currency of democracy."

"Music is always a commentary on society"

"98% of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy 2% that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them "

"The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex"

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