“The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.” KindDoneHouseAbilityWhiteEnvironmentPeriodsHealthyPressesClintonScriptsTechniqueAdministrationCorporateWhite HouseToxicMentalitySuspicionParallelsHostility Author:Ted Gup
“I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.” ThinkingKindLiteratureAbilityFictionBoundsContemporaryPostsBlogsSitcomIntellectualismContemporary Fiction Author:Ben Lerner
“My ability to notice that kind of thing, the sanctity of the bubble that you create, has not been so good in a way, in that I notice it concurrently with actually doing the thing. I always notice it in retrospect.” WayKindAbilityBubblesSanctityRetrospect Author:Andy Richter
“I think democracy fails under a variety of conditions and one of the conditions occurs when people don't have the ability to get the kind of information they need to make up their mind. Ideologically, I don't care much for FOX News. But the truth is that, as long as there are countervailing points of view available on the spectrum, it doesn't matter.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMindKindLongMatterCareAbilityViewsDemocracyFailingConditionsInformationTruth IsNewsDon't CareAvailablePoint Of ViewVarietyI Don't CareFoxesSpectrumFox News Author:Howard Dean