George F. Will Quotes
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Will, George F. The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts. Harper & Row, 1978.
The Commerce Department was then in charge of Radio regulation and policy. Hoover, a great administrator and businessman, had a terrible record with policy making. He almost always zigged when he should have zagged. He let General Douglas MacArthur loose to brutalize protesting veterans, would not use the Federal Government to provide any relief or stimulus as Roosevelt did in the Great Depression, and here, where he took a very left wing position on Radio Advertising, he was wrong again as it was the very thing he wanted to avoid that provided all the sponsors resources for all the great radio program development.
George Frederick Will is an American libertarian-conservative political commentator and author. He writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NBC News and MSNBC. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.
