| Television is altering
the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information
that might properly be called disinformation ... Disinformation
does not mean false information. It means misleading information
- misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information
- information that creates the illusion of knowing something,
but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
- Neil Postman
If only the journalists were modest. Since they're not, we'll
say it: The majority of everything that happens on this planet
escapes their notice.
- Rob Brezsny, Pronoia
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.
Every day there are newspaper pages and television newscasts
to be filed, and an expert who can deliver a jarring piece of
wisdom is always welcome. Working together, journalists and
experts are the architects of conventional wisdom.
- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics
La ética no es una condición ocasional, sino
que debe acompañar siempre al periodismo como el zumbido
al moscardón
- Gabriel García Márquez
¿Quieren que les cuente un cuento? (Would you like
me to tell you a story?)
- Brozo, Mexico newscaster/clown, aka Victor Trujillo
Writer's block is the temporary paralysis caused by the conviction,
on an unconscious level, that what the writer is attempting
is in some way fraudulent, or mistaken, or self-destructive.
- Joyce Carol Oates
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its
role is to make money. The monopoly publisher's reactions, on
being told that he ought to spend money on reporting distant
events, is therefore exactly that of a proprietor of a large,
fat cow, who is told that he ought to enter her in a horse race.
- A.J. Liebling, quoted in From Milton to McLuhan
Physicists calculate that in about 100 years time we will have
a planetary civilization. And that's what all the chaos is all
about. We are witnessing one of the great transitions in human
history from a fragmented savage Type-0 to a planetary and rather
civilized Type-1. It's quite dangerous the transition. Every
single headline I see in the newspapers is related to the birth
pangs of the birth of a Type-1 civilization.
Michio Kaku, BBC Interview
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