—Trends, “New Secessionists”
“Television is a legally maintained oligopolistic business. Three networks, with a few independent companies as their only serious competition, have a virtual lock on the broadcasting business.”
—Tibor R. Machan, “Sex and Violence Revisited”
“A decade ago…satires on such easy targets of opportunity as the military, businessmen, or Vietnam were one thing. But satirizing such things as state-controlled medicine simply wasn’t done. If you went that far, you might as well satirize New Deal or Great Society programs. And who could laugh at that sort of subject matter?”
—John R. Coyne Jr., “Washington Laughs at the Welfare State”