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"The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people."

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

"Media is Munchausen by proxy."

"A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from."

"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."

"Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will ..."

"A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert."

"When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer!" The media, like any group of animals, gallops in ..."

"We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are i..."

"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."