“The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.” MenBodyRealitySocialConditionsEventsTruth IsShapesNewsFunctionSocial Conditions Author:Walter Lippmann
“We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.” MenChildrenBodyNewsFortuneAccessReportsAgain And AgainProvenThreatenedAccess To Education Author:Erica Jong