“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.” MenMeanDesireHeavenSinPoorLibertyGenerationsCryTelevisionWillingHonorSellsRadioSatisfactionNewspapersAdvertisingGuiltyConsumerismWoeDegradationOverconsumptionInstillLaborersDeadly Sins Author:Dorothy Day
“Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.” MeanRealityAbleValuesFantasyJudgingDistancePatientNewspapersCuresJournalismPrimitivePsychoanalysisTherapeuticFantasy And Reality Author:Bill Vaughan
“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.” IfsMeanSelfWholeFeelingsNationsDisciplineNewspapersSelf Respect Author:Matthew Arnold