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… is from page 71 of UCLA emeritus economist William Allen’s 1989 collection of the transcripts of his splendid radio addresses, The Midnight Economist [2]; specifically, it’s from Allen’s September 1982 address “Professional Courage and Business Sense in Media Economics”:
Typical media commentaries, especially in the electronic media, are not pabulum, for pabulum is nutritious, even if soft and bland; the product is merely puree of sophomoric garbage.