"The failures of the press have contributed immensely……" — Carl Bernstein
"The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld."
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24 Quotes by Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein has 24 quotes on this site.
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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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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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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural…
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The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing…
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I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American…
— John Boehner
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran.…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're…
— George W. Bush
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When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot…
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I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
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The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want…
— Eric Cantor
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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction…
— Eric Cantor
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public…
— Eric Alterman
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Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to "choose" between public justice and private happiness. It…
— Susan Faludi
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