"Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think."

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Source : Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press

Pierre Bourdieu

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“We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.”
“What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.”

Source : "Transcript for Cecily Strong Remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner". abcnews.go.com. April 26, 2015.
“I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.”
“A funny thing is that you can't search me on Twitter because Adam Levine dominates there.”
“When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.”
“Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.”
“I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.
“Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.”

Source : "Norman Foster at 75: Norman's conquests". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.

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