"All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe."
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"I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art."
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"Language is butchered by the media"
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"I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk."
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"When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try."
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"I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can."
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"The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does."
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"When you talk about President Trump, the cable networks turned over so many hours of prime time to him. Why? Because he was entertaining, but also because it drove ratings. And that is different from what the news media is supposed to focus on."
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"It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as exploiters. I don't think most prostitutes see themselves as victims or see their clients as exploiters, but that way of seeing prostitutes and johns is pretty common now outside of sex-work circles, and it's more shameful to be the exploiter than the exploited."
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"Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed."
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"I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that."
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"Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history."
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"Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel."
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"Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition."
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"There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry."
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"Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama."
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"Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists."
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"Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling."
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"I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy."
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"Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes."
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