Fred W. Friendly quotes
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“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : U.S. News & World Report, June 12, 1967.
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“TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "Fred Friendly's Faith In The Constitution" by Nat Hentoff, www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 1998.
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“A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "The Interplay of Influence: Mass Media and Their Publics in News, Advertising, Politics (Wadsworth series in mass communication)". Book by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, 1982.
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“The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap, and they know it.”
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“Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.
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“What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "The Power of the Media, Part II". "The Open Mind", archive.org. 1990.
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“No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television].”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "Presidential Television: A Twentieth Century Fund report". Book by Newton N. Minow, John Bartlow Martin and Lee M. Mitchell, 1973.
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“I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.”
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "The Power of the Media, Part I". "The Open Mind", archive.org. 1990.
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“Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.”
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“While the Constitution is what the judges say it is, a public issue is something that Walter Cronkite or John Chancellor recognizes as such. The media by themselves do not make the decisions, but on behalf of themselves and larger interests they certify what is or is not on the nation's agenda.”
-- Fred W. Friendly
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