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Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson

Sir Robert Grainger Ker Thompson KBE CMG DSO MC was a British military officer and counter-insurgency expert and "He was widely regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as the world's leading expert on countering the Mao Tse-tung technique of rural guerrilla insurgency".

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Whenever anything gets the kind of attention that' Tiger King' has been getting, there is an automatic built in backlash with this American sense of superiority, there are some people who figure that if that many people are so excited about something, it couldn't be very good.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

It is an exquisitely put together thing, one of the reasons it's captivated so many people is the way it's edited. You get to know these characters and they wait one episode, two episodes, three episodes before they drop, like really major, major bits of detail.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

These investigative stories may not appeal to you at all in the first place. I think there is nothing wrong with the many, many people who just don't like that, like some people don't like sitcoms, I think there's nothing inherently wrong with someone who doesn't like' Tiger King.'.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

There are a few reasons that I think some people really might despise this show, they don't want to spend time with these characters, people who are sensitive to stories about animals very much could be bothered.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I think this would have been one of those things that every now and again breaks through the incredibly fragmented pop culture environment.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Hollywood is now becoming its own loudest voice in helping to call out what a bad thing this is.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Entertainment

The #MeToo movement was at the front lines in getting people to pay attention to this. Then it becomes institutionalized by these films and TV shows which people will continue to be able to watch years and years later in a way they won't be watching news coverage of #MeToo.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Entertainment

' Curb Your Enthusiasm' is supposed to make us uncomfortable, but some of the ways Your Enthusiasm is treating this is really kind of dicey.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Entertainment

There is still a lot, lot more to tell about this story and these events.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 12 months ago Entertainment

In many ways, the Mafia took over from the Western as the great American epic, it's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Entertainment

It's about the settling of the urban frontier as opposed to the geographical frontier, and it's also a great immigration story.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Entertainment

Art turns data into experience, when you see those stories embodied in actual human beings, with pretty unrelenting closeups (of interview subjects), that has a rhetorical power that exceeds 'just the facts,'.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Entertainment

When you see those stories embodied in actual human beings, with pretty unrelenting closeups (of interview subjects), that has a rhetorical power that exceeds 'just the facts,'.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Entertainment

If you lose a main character, or someone walks out, or there is a controversy, and the fix means it is still a funny or compelling show, then most people will forget very quickly, people will completely accept it - if the show is any good.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Company News

This is show business, not science. You do it and see how it works.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Company News

You get one last chance in your death to remind people not only of who you were, but what you did and why it was important.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Lifestyle

I'm looking forward to being sincerely interested in what they have to say without having to translate it through an idiot's mouth.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Entertainment

He could get away with that when he was on the 'Colbert Report' because he was doing a parody of (Fox News Channel pundit) Bill O'Reilly.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Entertainment

When he is going on all cylinders that show could be absolutely breath-taking and really informative and important to the civic conversation, people used to watch some of this goofy stuff that goes on in TV news and didn't think anything about it. But as you see the 100th montage where Stewart shows how all these cliches are repeated across the board, you don't look at TV news in the same way.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Entertainment

I imagine a lot of people on cable TV news are going to be happy not to have to wake up every morning and hear how Jon Stewart made fun of them the night before.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Entertainment

The Brian Williams story really poisoned the waters of the celebrity anchor person, no one now wants to pull the big stunt, get the biggest person you can get, because that's exactly what got the U.S. networks in trouble in the first place.

– Robert Thompson

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Reagan was the epitome of cool. He was above cool. He was post-cool, he was arguably the coolest president ever.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

The TV appearances are the equivalent of what a whistle stop used to be, they still have to do that, but the modern whistle stop is The View and Fallon and Colbert, and you slowly build up, if nothing else, the base of people who know you.

– Robert Thompson

Found on CNN 5 years ago Politics

Reality television is supposed to be unscripted, in which we don’t know what is going to happen, and sadly, this is one of those things.

– Robert Thompson

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Entertainment

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