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'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.
~ Alex Pareene
Absolutely
Because
Clue
Course
Fears
Flash
Internet
Media
No Clue
Novel
People
Reported
Reporting
Stoke
Used
Young
Young People
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'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.
~ Alex Pareene
Angry
Fox
Liberals
Old
Political
Watch
Will
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'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.
~ Alex Pareene
Avoid
Avoiding
Code
Desirable
Enough
Enough Money
Mainly
Make
Means
Money
Paying
People
Possible
Priority
Tax
Tax Code
Taxes
Want
Who
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'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!
~ Alex Pareene
Bad
Direction
Editing
Emily
Even
Good
Jeff
Newsroom
Production
Sam
Terrific
TV
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Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
~ Alex Pareene
Aaron
Condescending
Hate
He
Liberals
People
Smart
Smug
Thinks
Who
Why
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American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
~ Alex Pareene
Almost
American
Big
Big Business
Business
Constituents
Desires
Groups
Interest
Interests
Politicians
Primarily
Represent
Responsive
Rich
Solely
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An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.
~ Alex Pareene
American
Correct
Cut
Democracy
Down
Economic
Flourishing
Ideological
Immediately
Intentional
Lead
Least
Minority
Parliamentary
Proportional
Representation
Sabotage
Social
Social Democracy
System
Tactical
Would
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Anderson Cooper is fine. He is a smart, conscientious guy, and he seems to want his show to produce and highlight good journalism. But he also seems to want to replace Regis, or maybe even Oprah.
~ Alex Pareene
Also
Anderson
Conscientious
Cooper
Even
Fine
Good
Guy
He
Highlight
His
Journalism
Maybe
Oprah
Produce
Replace
Seems
Show
Smart
Want
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Apocalyptic hysteria is much more effective at getting people to open their wallets than reasonable commentary.
~ Alex Pareene
Commentary
Effective
Getting
Hysteria
More
Much
Open
People
Reasonable
Than
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As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.
~ Alex Pareene
Been
Defined
Errors
Has-Been
Interest
Judgment
Lack
Long
New
New York
Owned
Poor
Post
Responsibility
Rupert Murdoch
Taking
Total
Worst
York
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Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.
~ Alex Pareene
Amount
Around
Because
Breaks
Lucky
Much
People
Questions
Rewards
Rich
Rich People
Series
Society
Ted
Tiptoe
Unbelievably
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Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.
~ Alex Pareene
Ads
Almost
Awful
Badly
Boxes
Cable
Channel
Computers
Designed
Exception
Guides
Laid
Out
Poorly
Riddled
Running
Slow
Software
Very
Without
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Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.
~ Alex Pareene
Being
Bore
Certain
Christopher
Cultivated
Easy
Friends
Generally
He
Hence
Impress
Late
Lot
Mainly
Man
Rich
Society
Type
Washington
Who
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CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.
~ Alex Pareene
Also
Always
Channel
CNN
Currently
Disasters
Getting
Happen
Horrible
Hundreds
Mortal
People
Peril
Somewhere
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Trick
Turn
Turn-On
Want
Wars
Watch
Will
World
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CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.
~ Alex Pareene
Channel
Channels
CNN
Core
Ever
Fox
Fox News
Goes
Identity
News
Other
People
Problem
Right
Rise
Since
Sought
Strategy
Stupid
Very
Want
Watch
Who
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Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
~ Alex Pareene
About
Books
Conservatives
Fox
Good
Hosts
Mostly
Presidents
Radio
Read
Smart
Talk
Talk Radio
Want
Writing
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Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.
~ Alex Pareene
Anything
Being
Complain
Conservatives
Culture
Expects
Frequently
Frozen
Industries
Industry
Like
Out
Produce
Profit
Sell
Though
Will
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Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.
~ Alex Pareene
Attacks
Conservative
Did
Halt
Line
Nothing
Programs
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Cory Booker became a millionaire because this is how the economy works for people of his class: Rich people give other rich people money to do nothing, simply because they 'deserve' it.
~ Alex Pareene
Became
Because
Class
Deserve
Economy
Give
His
How
Millionaire
Money
Nothing
Other
People
Rich
Rich People
Simply
Works
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Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.
~ Alex Pareene
Alone
Between
Bus
Do You Know
Flights
Important
Know
New
New York
People
Shuttle
Takes
Think
Too
Train
Washington
Who
York
You
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