Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minutes with Andy Rooney, Rooney...
...Rooney singled out big business as one of the prime practitioners of this self-deception. Business always claims to hate big government, he said, yet it is "closer to big government than big government is to the people...
America has also "gone overboard with packaging," Rooney said, citing the large role of advertising in every facet of life, and the commensurate drop in quality. "People are setting out to make money instead of setting out to make something," he said...
...response to a question about the honesty of "60 Minutes," Rooney said that he was "intensely proud" of network T.V. journalism. "Network news is good for the simple reason that it knows where its next $10 million is coming from," he said, adding that he thought the networks could schedule more news programming...
...networks may now be moving in this direction because of the success of "60 Minutes," but Rooney called this a "mixed blessing," saying, "I hope that they never discover that they can make money off of news, or we're in trouble...