“Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.”
“The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment prevent nuclear proliferation force crooked politicians out of office reduce poverty provide quality health care for all people and even to save the lives of millions of people as it did in Ethiopia in 1984. But instead we are using it to promote sex violence and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls.’ Dr Carl Jensen founder of Project Censored”
“from opinion surveys that journalists are less trusted and less esteemed than used to be the case.”
“News which was once difficult and expensive to obtain today surrounds us like the air we breathe.”
“Satisfying news hunger no longer involves a twice daily diet of a morning newspaper and evening TV news bulletin: news comes in snack-form”
“If the journalist is secretly the tool of some invisible public relations machine or vested commercial interest it is the public whose interest is betrayed”