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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-06-14:

"Terrorism is Grand Theater."

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"Here, media is the total message: I now have an understanding of McLuhan you wouldn't believe. Kill twenty people here? In front of that lens it's killing twenty thousand." -- US Army Lieutenant Colonel George Krivo, who was serving in Iraq, on how the press can make a story. (From an October 2003 interview with journalist Mark Danner.)

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)