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Quotes by John Hall

Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.
– John Hall
As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.
– John Hall
I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.
– John Hall
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
– John Hall
I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.
– John Hall
In addition, I can't criticize any station's national advertisers. It goes without saying that I wouldn't have the urge to criticize local advertisers. It would be biting the hand that feeds. I am willing to criticize fast food in the generic and insurance in the generic but I do put on the gloves when it comes to specific issues.
– John Hall
It's the same trend that's disturbing about corporate culture in every form-its uniformity, the glorification of consumerism, and cruelty.
– John Hall
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
– John Hall
Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.
– John Hall
Take the support for the meat industry, which is nothing more than the trading of animal corpses for profit. Or the wanton cruelty of the automobile worship, and what it does to the environment and our souls. And the isolation that comes from motorism, which fosters that them-versus-us homicidal mentality.
– John Hall
The media isn't liberal. The media is corporate for the most part, so these are issues that don't get discussed in other media.
– John Hall
The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.
– John Hall
There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.
– John Hall
There's the obvious musical programming - the slavish conformity of programmers and the overwhelming triumph of play lists and 'emphasis cuts' seen all around the country. It should be obvious to anyone listening to the radio that, like fast food, there is a lack of distinction everywhere you look.
– John Hall