Quotes About Press

It reduced the press, we have seen, to a lackey's docility until the media essentially served only to distribute government handouts and the kind of cringing propaganda they called editorials.

even though much of what America believed about itself was also fraudulent, at least the press and publishers could express unorthodox views.

The Press and many members of Congress [in America] were sufficiently revolted by the administration's shameless evasions on Rwanda ... Meanwhile, the armored personnel carriers for an all-African intervention force sat on a runway in Germany

Your certitude is in questionable taste, Mr. Tagomi said. It seems to press untowardly.

At 63, he's witty, and smart, and he'll make fun of himself and his wife and staff and other pols and the Trail, and he'll tease the press and give them shit in a way they don't ever mind because it's the sort of shit that makes you feel that here's this very cool, important guy who's noticing you and liking you enough to give you shit.

La presse française attisait la colère des colons, surtout Le Monde, L'Express (un hebdomadaire pro-Mendès), le cryptocommuniste France Observateur, Témoignage chrétien (un hebdomadaire aux fortes tendances chrétiennes progressistes, proche des communistes), et même France-Soir. Ces journaux choisissaient de fermer les yeux sur les mauvais côtés du FLN, ils

If one is thoroughly disgusted by the politicians, the courts, the press and the suffocating culture, they should pat themselves on the back for being such an above-average specimen of humanity.

Consider, too, for a moment, Chomsky's misleading comparison of the Soviet and American presses as "mirror images." In fact, the ignorance imposed on the Soviet public by government-controlled media and official

The terrible thing is that Hitler's enemies know him better than anybody, and the press – which is of course wholly in Jewish hands – has defamed and ridiculed the man. An old trick: first a deathly silence, then scorn, then all-out war – and then annexation. (There are Jewish firms that manufacture swastikas.)

It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians out a premium on destroying freedom of the press.

It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians puts a premium on destroying freedom of the press.

When a stretch of Eye Street was finally ready, he had the barricades gracefully opened by two trained bears on loan from the circus. As a result, both Metro and the circus got good press. Even then Pfanstiehl could not please everybody; a labor representative berated him for giving work to nonunion bears.

What the press hasn't realized is that I'm just a big kid showing off, and you've got to treat me like that. You know, you don't make big kids accountable.

I liked Amy Winehouse a lot. I liked the way she did what she wanted, and she wasn't fazed about the press being on her back. I loved her songs so much.

I never read articles about my books.

Ces journalistes obscurs, payés seulement après l'insertion, restaient souvent pendant la nuit aux imprimeries pour voir mettre sous presse, soit les grands articles obtenus, Dieu sait comme ! soit ces quelques lignes qui prirent depuis le nom de réclames. Aujourd'hui,

The influence and power of the press is only dawning," said Finot. "Journalism is in its infancy; it will grow. In ten years' time, everything will be brought into publicity. The light of thought will be turned on all subjects, and — — " "The blight of thought will be over it all," corrected Blondet.

A newspaper is not supposed to enlighten its readers, but to supply them with congenial opinions. Give any newspaper time enough, and it will be base, hypocritical, shameless, and treacherous; the periodical press will be the death of ideas, systems, and individuals; nay, it will flourish upon their decay. It will take the credit of all creations of the brain; the harm that it does is done anonymously

Whenever the press makes vehement onslaughts upon some one in power, you may be sure that there is some refusal to do a service behind it. Blackmailing with regard to private life is the terror of the richest Englishman, and a great source of wealth to the press in England, which is infinitely more corrupt than ours. We are children in comparison! In England they will pay five or six thousand francs for a compromising letter to sell again.

given that many items reported by the "establishment press" turn out to be false, and that the same establishment press misses many important stories altogether, why should we attribute any special status to journalists? Why should we hallow, or expect, journalistic truths?

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, edited by Imre Lakatos and Alan Musgrave (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)

Another outstanding work dealing with the rationality of science is Marcello Pera's The Discourses of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

of Kuhn's and other theories of scientific change, see H. E. LeGrand, Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Drawing out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001).