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Letter "T" » the press
«The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.»
«The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
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debate, encourage, public debate, public press, supply, the press
«There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.»
«The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
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Juries and Judges
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all too, for the most part, inaccurate, judicial, medium, reporting, superficial, the press
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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«The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
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«The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
conclusion, dared, draw, machine, premise, premised, premises, press, railway, railways, telegraph, The Machine, the press, The Telegraph
«The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Press
| Keywords:
enlightening, improving, instrument, press, rational, the press
«The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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bulwark, bulwarks, despotic, freedom of the press, liberty of the press, press, restrained, the press
«The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment b»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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abuses, correct, discernment, falsehood, firmness, manifested, press, safely, the press, trusted, withstanding, withstood
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