Broadcast journalism Quotes by Nicholas von Hoffman

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

We are the people are parents warned us against.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so much created…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come…

— Nicholas von Hoffman