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The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
George Seldes
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
Dan Rather
I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.
K Lee Lerner
Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.
Demosthenes
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
Alain de Botton
I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.
Ken Gire
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Henry David Thoreau
The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.
Mark Twain, Monday Evening Club,
Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.
Daniel Gardner
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
Naomi Wolf
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.
Roger Ebert
It is a seldom proferred argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.
Walter Cronkite
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
William Butler Yeats
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
George Orwell
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Ideas are very important to me.
Bret Victor
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand (19
On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!
John Greenleaf Whittier
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
Carl Bernstein
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 185
