“I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces.” PeopleThinkingTogetherFacesNamesHalfGroupsTelevisionIncludingDozenReportersColleaguesWireSmall GroupsCannons Author:David E. Hoffman
“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.” WayStatesWholeStoriesLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionMediumsGenreNew ThingsNew WaysWireTelling StoriesHbo Author:William Gibson
“Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.” PeopleIfsWayLongRoomsTelevisionLong WayWireWristsBeirutEdward R Murrow Author:Linda Ellerbee
“The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more.” WorldHouseMediaTelevisionIncludingRadioNewspapersMagazinesAround The WorldOperationsAgencyStationsControlledPublishingWireCiaPublishing HouseMagazine Publishing Author:Michael Parenti
“Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.” WorldGivingLongHas BeensArtWarFilmFormWhiteRichEventsTelevisionPerspectiveDrugSeriesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IWireWar On DrugsRibbonsGreat FilmFilm And Television Author:Teju Cole