“You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.” RealViolenceNewsWesternNewspapers Author:Ray Stevenson
“The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.” WantSeemsIssuesNewsProgramWesternNuclearIranCooperationSanctionsBad NewsRegional Cooperation Author:Reza Aslan
“You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.” WaySometimesBigsYoungAsksSimpleNewsWesternFamiliarNaiveBig News Author:Jiang Zemin
“This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.” PeopleRealEndsHomeTodayCultureCommonOur LivesSacrificeNewsWesternRangeAnalysisUsaHolidayMediocrityAcceptableMcdonaldsCommon DenominatorWestern CultureInnsReal Food Author:Kate Bornstein
“The greatest threat facing American today - next to voter fraud, the Western Pinebark beetle, and the memory foam mattress - is the national news media.” TodayNextMemoriesMediaNewsThreatWesternVotersFraudFoamNews MediaBeetlesMattressesVoter Fraud Author:Stephen Colbert
“The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.” PeopleWarDoneReadingKnownMediaTelevisionSceneNewsWesternPrisonerCheerConventionsVeilsAlliancesTalibanBeing DoneBreachKabulWestern Media Author:Tariq Ali
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.” Has BeensDifferentMatterFormSocialSidesReligiousMovementPureDegreesNewsWesternScalesPartnershipSecularEasternDominationBad NewsLeftistsRegression Author:Riane Eisler