It's the most successful created national holiday since Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving.
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I think we have yet to realize how much we are going to miss that. I don't think it's a total coincidence that it's happening at the same time there's an increasingly divisive nature in the country. What the consensus medium of television used to do, and radio before that, was to provide this enormous center that everybody had to go to now and then. ... Now, there is a lack of cultural consensus that even extends to what we consider the body of facts we used to debate.Robert Thompson
I think to some extent the opportunity to go and take the place of an iconic figure of rock and roll, well, what's the psychology of not wanting to do that You'll see a kid play air guitar in a garage. It's the same thing. It's easy for these people to get teased, and some behave in ways that they invite it. But I don't think it's intrinsically sick or strange. What is colonial Williamsburg but people in historical drag
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Parents are now talking about kids staying home playing poker instead of going out to movies. It opened up this whole other area.
Robert Thompson
The opportunities exceed the ability of most people, even rabid fans, to consume. Because of that, are people going to quit watching I don't think so. They can't watch all of them, but they'll watch the ones they're most interested in.
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Already in our culture telethons are beginning to wear out a little bit simply because we do have so many of them,
Robert Thompson
It's pathetic. It's pathetic that someone in a time especially right after Katrina, seeing people suffer, would take advantage of the system.
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United we stand, divided we fall.
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