Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
AL FRANKENLiberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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