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“Once they get past the ‘Gee, this doesn’t look like anything else on my television set,’ then they start to get into it and begin to say, ‘Well, I can understand that. I’ve got two eyes and two ears. I can figure out what they’re saying.’ They may only watch 10 minutes of a 30-minute speech, but that’s better than 30 seconds. . . . There’s a tremendous amount of resentment on the part of the public about television news people telling them how to think.”

--C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, in the Baltimore Sun.