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""Don [Hewitt] told me, 'You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years.' Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten."- Nicholas Von Hoffman
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""Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."- Frank Zappa, quoted in Linda Botts, 'Loose Talk' (1980)
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