Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-01-15 Jan 15, 2013I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.~ Dr. Michael Crichton... political reporters love to write about politics as if they are merely disinterested observers of political events and the public's perceptions of them, when in fact they play a very key role in shaping those events and perceptions.~ Greg SargentThe press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is -- it's got to be more government.~ Harry Browne Jan 14, 2013Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.~ Mark TwainWe should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter Scott Jan 11, 2013The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.~ Aldous HuxleyHastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.~ George Orwell Jan 10, 2013In May 1998, [Los Angeles Times publisher Mark] Willis told the Wall Street Journal that he wanted to make the Times more appealing to women and minorities by producing stories that were “more emotional, more personal and less analytic.”~ William McGowanPrivate opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.~ Harriet Beecher StowePublic sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.~ Abraham Lincoln Jan 9, 2013Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.~ Theodore RooseveltThe government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’~ Harry BrowneAs the world goes, right is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.~ Thucydides Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print