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I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
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Bark Basements Supposed
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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Degenerate Governance Politics Seminal
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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Determine Embedded Moral Quiet Street
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality

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