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“Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.”

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Peter Jennings was a distinguished American journalist, widely recognized for his role as a television news anchor. His career with ABC News, where he anchored "World News Tonight" from 1983 until his death in 2005, solidified his place as one of the most respected journalists of his time. Jennings was known for his composed and professional demeanor, and he was celebrated for his in-depth reporting and ability to engage with viewers. more

“There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.”

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Author:George Lakoff

“Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king.”

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