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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.

Bill Moyers

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Freedom Hands Writing
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Believe Media Trust
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Facts May Prepared
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
The delusional is no longer marginal.
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Delusional Marginal People Person
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.

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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.

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