Pbs Quotes - Page 2

• I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

  Thu Tran

  Cooking, Television, Genre

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

  John Tesh

  Christmas, Song, Air

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• But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who's going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that's out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted "The Dead Are Walking," the more most real Americans tuned them out.

  Max Brooks

  Real, Media, Npr

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• Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

  Joseph J. Romm

  Air, Giving, Holocaust

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• A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.

  David Frum

  Country, Media, Two

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• The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Animal, Lakes, Land

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.17, South End Press

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• We believed - and I personally still believe - that the so called Voice of God narration, ubiquitous in documentaries destined for PBS, is insulting to the audience. If you believe in the intelligence of your audience, you don't need to tell them what to think and how to process the material they're seeing.

  Jayne Loader

  Believe, Thinking, Voice

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• Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

  Julie Bishop

  Average, Years, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  Hank Stuever

  Sports, Cooking, Lines

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.

  Jeremy Piven

  Hbo, Grew Up, Grew

  Source: www.pbs.org

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