18 Quotes by Fred W. Friendly



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    The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.

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    Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

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    Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

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    No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].

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    While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.

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