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NC: Well they don’t want change to happen….They’re right in the
center of the system of power and domination. First of all the media are
corporations, parts of bigger corporations, they’re very closely linked
to other systems of power both in personnel and interests and social
background and everything else. Naturally they tend to be reactionary.
LF: But they sort of give us a clock. If change hasn’t happened in ten minutes, it’s not going to happen.
NC: Well that’s a technique of indoctrination. That’s something I
learned from my own experience. There was once an interview with Jeff
Greenfield in which he was asked why I was never asked ontoNightline.
He gave a good answer. He said the main reason was that I lacked
concision. I had never heard that word before. You have to have
concision. You have to say something brief between two commercials. ... "
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