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In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we’re getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There’s a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn’t exist.

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in ‘The Practice’ than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.