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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. – Carl Bernstein

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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. – Carl Bernstein

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Media
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Carl Bernstein
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The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most peoples lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. – Carl Bernstein

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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. – Rita Mae Brown

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The marvels – of film, radio, and television – are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. – Milton Mayer

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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. – William Hodding Carter, Jr.

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