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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Bill Moyers

Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creativity Scientist
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
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
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual

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