TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
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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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A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.
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Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
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