Carl Bernstein Quotes

A collection of quotes by Carl Bernstein.

Carl Bernstein is an American investigative journalist and author. Born on February 14, 1944, in Washington, D.C., Bernstein gained international fame as one of the journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. Along with Bob Woodward, he reported on the political espionage and subsequent cover-up that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Bernstein has gone on to write several books, including the best-selling autobiography "Loyalties" and "A Woman in Charge," a biography of Hillary Clinton. With his relentless pursuit of truth, Bernstein has become a celebrated figure in the world of journalism.

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing.

Television

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a botto

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Truth Thepublic

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Culture

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies

Media

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, mi

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

Truth