"Public policy in the twentieth century was about……" — Carl Bernstein
"Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society."
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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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Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.
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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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