USA Today is back-formed from the Assumed Dominant Mind of television. - George W. S. Trow

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

I don’t just like Ike; I love him. I think he’s the guy of guys, I think he’s uniquely American, and I’m sorry we’re not going to have him anymore.