…the news has to be a put-on. It has to put on a public, and so the last comic twist in the news would be a way of dismissing the public and saying "so long." You know how in Laugh-In they do it that way. They have a rapid roundup, at the last as a dismissal, of wildly improbable comic turns… I think there are a whole lot of wonderful topics we've managed to broach at least, but it would take a long time to get into them”
“TV News as a New Mythic Form “(Interview with Tom Wolfe), 1970, in Understanding Me (2003), p 171
Year: 1970
Chapter:
News
Compiled by William Kuhns
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