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People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth. 

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it’s a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – “indoctrination,” we might say – exercised through the mass media.

When a ‘Life of Brian’ comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it’s always pronounced some other way.

Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ” buzz ” about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.