“Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.” BookReadingConversationNewsAskingRecommendationsExchanging Author:Marianne Wiggins
“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.” MenKindGovernmentNightMillionsNewsAskingResponsibleDeterminedCorporateFortyCensorshipEmployersHandfulCommentators Book:The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment Source: The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment
“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.” MadeWatchesHistoryWrittenNewsAskingClayArchaeologistsSifting Book:A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 Source: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981
“Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.” IfsWritingImportantSelfDoneSeemsAblePleasureMediaNewsRootsDecidedAskingMirrorsEstablishmentSeptemberGood NewsSupportiveAntidoteSeptember 11Old Self Author:John Pilger