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 "Most people,
sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up,
brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if
nothing had happened."
Winston Churchill |
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"The true danger
is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts...
the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men
to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
"It is not
the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling
into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government
from falling into error"
United States Supreme Court - American Communications Association
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"America
will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose
our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves"
Abraham Lincoln
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens,
it was planned that way".
Teddy Roosevelt |
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Quotes from news people |
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"Our
job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide
they ought to have."
Richard Salant, former President of CBS News
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"We are going to impose our agenda on
the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose
to deal with".
Richard M. Cohen, former Senior Producer of CBS political news |
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"There
is no such thing, at this date of the world's history in America,
as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dare to write your honest opinions,
and if you did, you know beforehand
that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping
my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others
of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any
of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would
be out on the street looking for another job.
If I allowed my
honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four
hours
my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is
to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his
race for his daily bread.
You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press?
We are the tools and vassals
of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they
pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities,
and our lives are all the property of other men.
We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, former chief of staff, The New York Times, in a
1953 speech before the New York Press Club
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