. . . by evil report and good report . . .

. . . by evil report and good report . . .

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're read more

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
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Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

Ill news, madam,
Are swallow-winged, but what's good
Walks on crutches.

Ill news, madam,
Are swallow-winged, but what's good
Walks on crutches.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We read more

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a read more

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.