“The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1.” WorldFirstsStoriesMediaThirdsRateDisasterThird WorldWorld Life Author:Craig Reucassel
“Who should regulate the media? Who should control the press? The commentariat agonises, as if the choice was between state control through some autocratic press law or a new Press Complaints Commission redecorated with false teeth. But there is another way. Let journalists regulate themselves.... Let's have a little democracy in the media. Even in the Murdoch papers, the number of journalists who are irretrievably lawless and callous is quite small. Most of the disasters at the News of the World happened because its editors treated their staff in the style of Muammar Gaddafi.” IfsWorldWayShouldLittlesStatesLawChoicesNumbersDemocracyHappenedMediaStylePaperNewsPressesDisasterTeethTreatedJournalistEditorsStaffComplaintsPapersAnother WayCallousGaddafiMuammar Gaddafi Author:Neal Ascherson
“A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .” FirstsRoomsMediaRadioDisasterExplosionsHintsLiving RoomZeppelinsElectronic MediaHindenburg Author:R. W. Apple
“Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters that followed. Political rhetoric, echoed in the media, seeks to obscure that painfully plain fact.” FactsGovernmentPoliticalPracticeStageMediaFinancialDisasterRhetoricObscurePaymentMortgageLendingPolitical Rhetoric Author:Thomas Sowell
“The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.” TryingMediaDisasterRubbish Author:Freeman Dyson
“Obamacare is an absolute disaster! And half the country knows it's a disaster because the alternative media read the bill and told you what's in it and gave you the absolute anti-American contents to this piece-of-garbage bill. Half of the country doesn't know what's in it. They think it's free health care because that's what Obama's been out lying to people, you keep your doctor, keep your plan and your premium's coming down $2,500. People were lied to through his teeth. And they believed him.” PeopleThinkingKnowsCountryCareLyingHalfPiecesPlansMediaDoctorsAbsolutesBillsDisasterTeethAlternativesHealth CareGarbageLiedObamacarePremiumAnti-american Author:Rush Limbaugh