Adolph Zukor Quotes
Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?
Zukor, Adolph, and Dale Kramer. The Public Is Never Wrong: My Fifty Years in Motion Pictures. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953.
This quotation appears to be typical of critics’ complaints about modern media and political reform movements lowing their standards and just trying to provide entertainment for the masses. The reason that it is noteworthy is that it was written in 1909. It is typical of the same class of complaints of 100 years later.
The George W. Bush administration was a very ideological one as opposed to pragmatic. They would not tolerate public officials who would say anything that might undermine an administrative ideological position. In particular, they did not want government scientists releasing any data or information that was not totally consistent with their ideology and program. They introduced a new policy within the government whereby no one could talk to a reporter or make a public speech or deliver a professional paper without first getting approval of administration “public affairs” agents first. Government scientists and other officials had never before been censored like this. Important scientific studies were not made public where they might not support the administration ideological positions. See {614691}.
Adolph Zukor was an Austro-Hungarian-born American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913.
