Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
BILL MOYERSFox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women’s rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.
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