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'Ours is a 24 hours a day business. We're not turning out 3000 gross of shoes, beans or neck-ties. We're turning out a new product every day, with new problems.' TV/radio executive, Ward Qual quoted in Studs Terkel's Working 1975.

'The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs for no good reason. Which is more or less true. Mainly we are dealing with a profoundly degenerate world, a living web of foulness, greed and treachery... which is also the biggest real business around and impossible to ignore. You can't get away from TV. It is everywhere. The hog is in the tunnel.' Hunter S. Thompson 'Full Time Scrambling' November 4 1985 quoted in Generation of Swine, Gonzo Papers Vol 2 Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s. 1988.

'I considered network TV to be propaganda for the corporate state…I loathe and despise almost every second of it.' David Chase, executive producer and creator of the TV Mafioso series 'The Sopranos' as reported in The New York Review of Books August 16th 2007 in 'A Northern New Jersey of the Mind' by Geoffrey O'Brien.

'Under the old local owners, a newspaper's capacity for making money was only part of its value. Today, it is everything. Gone is the notion that a newspaper should lead, that it has an obligation to its community, that it is beholden to the public…Someday, I suspect, when we look back on these forty years, we will wonder how we allowed the public good to be so deeply subordinated to private gain…What do the current owners want from their newspapers? The answer could not be simpler. Money. That's it.' 'What Will Become of Newspapers?' John S Carroll former editor of the Los Angeles Times as reported in The New York Review of Books August 16th 2007 in 'Goodbye to Newspapers?' by Russell Baker