Quotes About Public

Parklands are often positioned as apolitical, as "common" or public land that somehow eludes examination amidst the grit of property markets and land-use battles, but it is critical to understand parks as a central feature of colonial land logics, as aggressively regulating and disciplining land and its occupations.

Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

it's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense

Get your liver ready: the second GOP debate is upon us S

There are people in the world worth laughing at. They're called politicians.

Two data points stood out after 2016. One involved those polls that showed confidence in the media dipping to all-time lows. The other involved unprecedented ratings. People believed us less, but watched us more.

So long as the public is busy hating each other and not aiming its ire at the more complex financial and political processes going on off-camera, there's very little danger of anything like a popular uprising.

No crowd of millions ever banged down the door of Time magazine and demanded, "We want a president who's a good beer companion.

Though most of our problems are systemic, most of our public debates are referendums on personality. Not many people can be neutral on the subject of Trump, so we wave him at you all day long. Meanwhile, a vast universe of systemic issues is ignored. We've been steadily narrowing that field of view for decades, particularly in investigative reporting.

Scare the crap out of people, and media companies get richer, while state agencies get more and more license for authoritarian crackdowns on the "folk devil" of the moment. A perfect partnership.

An oft-cited Gallup poll taken just after the 2016 election showed just 20 percent of Americans expressed "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers. An 80 percent no-confidence vote would be cause for concern in most professions.

Russiagate happened in an opposite context. If the story fell apart it would benefit Donald Trump politically, a fact that made a number of reporters queasy about coming forward. #Russiagate became synonymous with #Resistance, which made public skepticism a complicated proposition.

In the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" era, many in the press wear their public repudiation like badges of honor, evidence that they're on the right journalistic track. Few seem troubled by the obvious symbiosis between Trump's bottom-feeding, scandal-a-minute act and the massive boom in profits suddenly animating our once-dying industry (even print journalism, a business that pre-Trump seemed destined to go the way of 8-track tapes, has seen a bump in the Trump years).

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Center, where doctors could better monitor his condition. The administration did a poor job of informing the public about the president's health. Then Trump took a limo ride around the Walter Reed campus while he was sick just to wave to supporters. When he returned to the White House on October 5, he dramatically unmasked himself while standing on the balcony. These cavalier acts erased whatever momentum had been building for the incumbent in the polls.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

It is very fit, and of good use, that ministers should be ordained publicly, plebe praesente – in the presence of the common people, according to the usage of the primitive church.

We are all struggling with something. Some of our struggles are easier to hide than others. My struggle with food is there for all to see. Others can hide their struggles. But sometimes being able to hide our struggles makes them harder, not easier.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

of earlier thoughts, as he claimed it was. His horrified fascination with slave revolt and race war was a constant, in private as well as in public speeches.

Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

Se trata del surgimiento de un pujante capitalismo del bienestar, es decir, de miles de empresas que sin dejar de lado el aspecto comercial forman parte integral del sistema de prestación de servicios públicamente financiados.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.