“It's the unreal, sustained glitch in naturalism that makes this genre of TV disturbing to either watch or be on. The Lynchian subjugation of our humanity; warmth and humour, usurped by a sterile, pastel-coloured steel blade benignly thrust again and again into a grey brain.”

Quoted in Spin magazine, May 1985 http://books.google.com/books?id=9ugCQfxwym0C&q=%22In+America+you+watch+TV+and+think+that's+totally+unreal+then+you+step+outside+and+it's+just+the+same%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage

Source: Competing for the Future, 1996, p. 18
Context: Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as "sustaining" leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

Daily Mail (London, January 29, 1990).

2017, My Response (February)

Cited in: Jon Henley, "'Make our planet great again': Macron's response to Trump is praised" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/03/make-our-planet-great-again-macron-praised-for-response-to-trump, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 (page visited on 15 November 2017).

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

2014, "Narendra Modi on the Role of NDTV during the 2002 Riots", 2014
Context: It was my endeavour that we restore peace at the earliest possible. If you look at the data you will see that in 72 hours we had put down the riots and brought the situation under control. But these TV channels kept on playing up the same incidents over and over again. At the time, Rajdeep [Sardesai] and Barkha [Dutt] were in the same channel NDTV. During those inflamed days, Barkha acted in the most irresponsible manner. Surat had not witnessed any communal killings, barring a few small incidents of clashes. However the bazaars were closed [as a precautionary measure]. Barkha stood amidst closed shops screaming "This is Surat’s diamond market, but there is not a single police man here."

Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.