"Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly……" — Carl Bernstein
"Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them."
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24 Quotes by Carl Bernstein
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which…
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June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The…
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At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a…
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed…
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The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather…
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a…
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is…
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Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch…
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural…
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More Amuse Quotes
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one of 161 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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