The Clear Channel boss told Fortune magazine in March: "If anyone said we were in the radio business, it wouldn't be someone from our company. We're not in the business of providing news and information. We're not in the business of providing well-researched music. We're simply in the business of selling our customers products."
Interviewing a military analyst as U.S. jet bombers headed to Baghdad on the first day of the Iraq war, NBC anchor Brokaw declared: "Admiral McGinn, one of the things that we don’t want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country."
(Disgusting, okay. But what Tom failed to realize is that "we" are not the warhawks' concern - that would be Halliburton, World Com, Bechtel, et al, and they are faring very well by our destruction of the infrastructure.)
In May of this year, when [correspondent John] Stossel was promoted to co-anchor of ABC's "20/20," a network insider told TV Guide: "These are conservative times. ... The network wants somebody to match the times."
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003
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