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I also think that the diffusion of the media has complicated things. For example, I was just watching — I don’t know if you heard what I said in the other room — I was just watching MSNBC, and they had a woman that used to work for me and a couple of other people on there, and they were talking about the Republican primary. And I was laughing. I said, “Boy, it really has become our version of Fox.” And I say that because think of the economics of running cable channels. Suppose you and I bought a cable channel, and he [pointing] bought another. You know that to make a living out of it, you’ve got to get about eight hundred thousand viewers for all your major programs. So you can get eight hundred thousand, and you won’t be as wealthy as Fox, but you’ll do okay. And now if you get a slice that’s that small and still viable — and you know it’s not like when we just had NBC, CBS, and ABC. That’s all there was. Everybody had enough market share that they knew would guarantee some comfortable level of profit. And yet there was enough competition that everybody could keep each other honest, and when the Vietnam War came along, they could send fifty-five-year-old reporters to Vietnam for extended stays. They could afford to have correspondents in Europe to report. Correspondents in Asia. All that’s changed now. And so the good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely. (via Bill Clinton Interview 2012 - Esquire)
This is what ex-Presidents do; they opine masterfully and with an insight so keen it’s nearly reassuring. If they’re intelligent enough, they drop wisdom in ways they never did as President, because they’re free of the spotlight, approval ratings and the raging crave to get re-elected. They write papers and publish. They expound prolifically. What the fuck is George W. Bush doing? What is his dad doing? What ideas and opinions are THOSE fucking turds sharing? It’s hard to do when you’re sitting around in your cowboy hat, jacking off with fistfuls of hundred dollar bills while the black President has to clean up your mess like some 1950s custodian at the country club where you just threw the party of your life.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly17ybD4k51qz80pso1_500.jpg)
I also think that the diffusion of the media has complicated things. For example, I was just watching — I don’t know if you heard what I said in the other room — I was just watching MSNBC, and they had a woman that used to work for me and a couple of other people on there, and they were talking about the Republican primary. And I was laughing. I said, “Boy, it really has become our version of Fox.” And I say that because think of the economics of running cable channels. Suppose you and I bought a cable channel, and he [pointing] bought another. You know that to make a living out of it, you’ve got to get about eight hundred thousand viewers for all your major programs. So you can get eight hundred thousand, and you won’t be as wealthy as Fox, but you’ll do okay. And now if you get a slice that’s that small and still viable — and you know it’s not like when we just had NBC, CBS, and ABC. That’s all there was. Everybody had enough market share that they knew would guarantee some comfortable level of profit. And yet there was enough competition that everybody could keep each other honest, and when the Vietnam War came along, they could send fifty-five-year-old reporters to Vietnam for extended stays. They could afford to have correspondents in Europe to report. Correspondents in Asia. All that’s changed now. And so the good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely. (via Bill Clinton Interview 2012 - Esquire)
This is what ex-Presidents do; they opine masterfully and with an insight so keen it’s nearly reassuring. If they’re intelligent enough, they drop wisdom in ways they never did as President, because they’re free of the spotlight, approval ratings and the raging crave to get re-elected. They write papers and publish. They expound prolifically. What the fuck is George W. Bush doing? What is his dad doing? What ideas and opinions are THOSE fucking turds sharing? It’s hard to do when you’re sitting around in your cowboy hat, jacking off with fistfuls of hundred dollar bills while the black President has to clean up your mess like some 1950s custodian at the country club where you just threw the party of your life.
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