Sunday, July 11, 2004
July 11, 2004
“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.”
- Carl Bernstein (b. 1944), American journalist: in “The Guardian” (London), June 3, 1992.
“Diaper backwards spells repaid. Think about it.”
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 1980) Canadian communications theorist: remark June 1969, made at American Booksellers Association luncheon, Washington, DC, quoted in “The Sun” (Vancouver), June 7, 1969.
“What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.”
- Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961), Martiniquan psychiatrist, philosopher and political activist: “Black Skins, White Masks”, 1952; translated 1967.
“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.”
- Carl Bernstein (b. 1944), American journalist: in “The Guardian” (London), June 3, 1992.
“Diaper backwards spells repaid. Think about it.”
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 1980) Canadian communications theorist: remark June 1969, made at American Booksellers Association luncheon, Washington, DC, quoted in “The Sun” (Vancouver), June 7, 1969.
“What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.”
- Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961), Martiniquan psychiatrist, philosopher and political activist: “Black Skins, White Masks”, 1952; translated 1967.
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