"Thomas", "Tom" or "Tommy Griffith" may refer to:

*Thomas Griffith (Australian politician) (1842–1913), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly

*Tommy Griffith (1889–1967), American baseball player

*Thomas B. Griffith (born 1954), American judge

*Tom Griffith (born 1957), American television presenter

*Thomas Griffith (MP) for Flint Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency) in the 16th century

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Journalism as theater [is what] TV news is.

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Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.

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Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

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To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.

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Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

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This was nothing but a tragic, awful accident.

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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

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Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.

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I think it's going very well. I think Judge Peters has given them a nice explanation.

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