If the watchdog doesn’t bark, how do you know there’s a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.
BILL MOYERSJournalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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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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Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
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They’re counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They’re counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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