Kingman Brewster Jr. - The newspaper fits the reader's program whil

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

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Brewster, Kingman. Quoted in The Book of Quotes, edited by Barbara Rowes, E.P. Dutton, 1979, p. 211.

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