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Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

Bill Moyers

What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Animal Ark Expensive God Interception Men
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Commitment Gone Information
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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Empires Media Radio
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person

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