“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.” WarAmericaTurnsAttentionMediaMonthsNewsPaidPressesUglyCommunistCoverageDipCentral AmericaEl SalvadorUgly Truth Author:Fred Barnes
“It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.” StoriesBehindsNewsPaidAvailableUselessAgencyCurtains Author:Robert G. Picard
“The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.” PeopleFeelsI CanLastsMillionsForeverTvsLuckyNewsPaidBlessedStructureFortuneInsaneAccurateImmenseRepresentationGood Fortune Author:Tom Hanks
“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.” WritingStoriesAsksEventsProveNewsPaidCurrentsJournalismReportersRetrospectNews MediaCurrent Events Author:Anna Quindlen
“The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.” HelpingShowsTrumpNewsClaimsPaidBusyEngagedCyclesVirtuousReportersSupporterChasingCnnInsidiousSurrogates Author:David Folkenflik