"When he [Man] ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and
prophets, Science lovingly brought forth the Radio Commentator."
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Jean Giraudoux, writer, 1933
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"Some view the difference between the talk shows and traditional journalism in political terms, as a simple quarrel between left and right, between liberal and conservative. Those differences exist, but they're not of great consequence. What we're seeing is a difference between journalism and pseudo-journalism, between journalism and propaganda. The former seeks earnestly to serve the public. The latter seeks to manipulate it."
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John Carroll, Editor, Los Angeles Times, 2004
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“When he (Man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, Science lovingly brought forth the Radio Commentator.”
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Jean Giraudoux, 1933, The Enchanted
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“Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect. Words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.”
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Frederic Raphael, writer, 1980
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"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against igorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful."
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Edward R. Murrow, American TV news pioneer, 1958
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"I've invented a new definition for TV," he mutterred gloomily. 'I've decided it's a device for hindering communication between the artist and the audience.'"
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- Arthur C. Clarke, writer, 1953
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"I learned that television wasn't about conveying information, but
about glorifying the conveyor of the information -- the star. When I
asked a young producer the secret of success for a print reporter going
into television, he replied, 'Sincerity. If you can fake that, you've
got it made.'"
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--Daniel Schorr, NPR senior news analyst and newspaper columnist,
reflecting on six decades as a print, TV and radio journalist,
September 2003.
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"Television is more pernicious than merely wires in a box. In the main,
television has acted, in the words of the fire marshals, as an
accelerant in the great bonfire of our vanities. Of these
vanities the greatest is the belief that the pursuit of happiness and
the pursuit of material well-being are the same. Within that belief is
our faith and reliance upon choice in a free market, which democracy
both sustains and requires. But not everything the market offers is
good and not everything that is good is for sale."
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--Peter McGhee, former Public Broadcasting Service (US) executive, 2002
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"Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters,
it's not real unless it's on the tube."
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--Ed Rollins, US political consultant, 1996
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