The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The New York Times is an institution that attracts careerists, who are drawn to power and access. This gave me a kind… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10” — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Revolutionists who took part in uprisings in one part of the globe would often migrate to take part in uprisings in another. Francisco de… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Those captivated by the cult of celebrity do not examine voting records or compare verbal claims with written and published facts and reports. The… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Positive psychology is to the corporate state what eugenics was to the Nazis — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Hope has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope requires personal risk. It is not about the right attitude. Hope is not… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists. — Chris Hedges Copy Share
“Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Copy Share
The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe… — Chris Hedges Copy Share
