Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
AL FRANKENWe basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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