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We could see them from our house, it’s sad, i was in Vietnam and saw a lot of things that were sad, but I never thought I ’d see it at my home. I do n’t know how you can accept it.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Time difference will make a big difference and yes, people will take advantage of the time shifting, something that started with clever VCR owners back in 1981 for the Charles-Diana wedding, and is much easier now.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
She represents that generation when daytime television was still a broadcast TV phenomenon.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
[ Ellen ] was one of the anchor stores in the mall of daytime television, i think in many ways, she might be sort of the last of that era.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Kelly Clarkson is doing pretty well, i guess Kelly Clarkson might be what you'd call the crown prince.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Given the gravity of the ‘Rust’ situation, the first thing that Alec Baldwin does after that, you want to make sure it can't be really in any way be tasteless, or that you could read something into it that could comment upon the ‘Rust’ [incident], i think a true crime show like this is probably a fairly safe bet.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The kind of thing he's doing with this fraud podcast is very, very much in a genre that is really popular, matter of fact, the first podcasts to really break through were these true crime kinds of things.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We’re not only in the best seats; we’re in seats that don’t even exist.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The audience in the venue is no longer the economics. The media is the economics.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think this would have been one of those things that every now and again breaks through the incredibly fragmented pop culture environment.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are a few reasons that I think some people really might despise this show, they don't want to spend time with these characters, people who are sensitive to stories about animals very much could be bothered.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
These investigative stories may not appeal to you at all in the first place. I think there is nothing wrong with the many, many people who just don't like that, like some people don't like sitcoms, I think there's nothing inherently wrong with someone who doesn't like' Tiger King.'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is an exquisitely put together thing, one of the reasons it's captivated so many people is the way it's edited. You get to know these characters and they wait one episode, two episodes, three episodes before they drop, like really major, major bits of detail.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whenever anything gets the kind of attention that' Tiger King' has been getting, there is an automatic built in backlash with this American sense of superiority, there are some people who figure that if that many people are so excited about something, it couldn't be very good.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The #MeToo movement was at the front lines in getting people to pay attention to this. Then it becomes institutionalized by these films and TV shows which people will continue to be able to watch years and years later in a way they won't be watching news coverage of #MeToo.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There is still a lot, lot more to tell about this story and these events.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
' Curb Your Enthusiasm' is supposed to make us uncomfortable, but some of the ways Your Enthusiasm is treating this is really kind of dicey.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Hollywood is now becoming its own loudest voice in helping to call out what a bad thing this is.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In many ways, the Mafia took over from the Western as the great American epic, it's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When you see those stories embodied in actual human beings, with pretty unrelenting closeups (of interview subjects), that has a rhetorical power that exceeds 'just the facts,'.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Art turns data into experience, when you see those stories embodied in actual human beings, with pretty unrelenting closeups (of interview subjects), that has a rhetorical power that exceeds 'just the facts,'.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This is show business, not science. You do it and see how it works.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If you lose a main character, or someone walks out, or there is a controversy, and the fix means it is still a funny or compelling show, then most people will forget very quickly, people will completely accept it - if the show is any good.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
You get one last chance in your death to remind people not only of who you were, but what you did and why it was important.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He could get away with that when he was on the 'Colbert Report' because he was doing a parody of (Fox News Channel pundit) Bill O'Reilly.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm looking forward to being sincerely interested in what they have to say without having to translate it through an idiot's mouth.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When he is going on all cylinders that show could be absolutely breath-taking and really informative and important to the civic conversation, people used to watch some of this goofy stuff that goes on in TV news and didn't think anything about it. But as you see the 100th montage where Stewart shows how all these cliches are repeated across the board, you don't look at TV news in the same way.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I imagine a lot of people on cable TV news are going to be happy not to have to wake up every morning and hear how Jon Stewart made fun of them the night before.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Brian Williams story really poisoned the waters of the celebrity anchor person, no one now wants to pull the big stunt, get the biggest person you can get, because that's exactly what got the U.S. networks in trouble in the first place.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The TV appearances are the equivalent of what a whistle stop used to be, they still have to do that, but the modern whistle stop is The View and Fallon and Colbert, and you slowly build up, if nothing else, the base of people who know you.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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