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.
AL FRANKENIf 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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