A Quote by Pauline Kael
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.
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Television, I would say,
isn't an advertising medium.
It's a selling medium.
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