Quotes we love

What I Perceive, Is

Submitted by Meryl Blazer:

“Whether our perceptions of the world are real or fictional does not play a large part in our daily lives. One behaves as if one’s perception of the world were ‘true.’”

Michael Kunczik, The Global PublicRelations Handbook.

 

You’re Fired!

Submitted by Nick Cenac:

“Corporations have multimillion-dollar budgets to dissect and attack news reports they dislike. But with each passing year they have yet another power: They are not only hostile to independent journalists. They are their employers.”

Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly

 

American Blinders

Submitted by Guadalupe D. Flores, Jr:

“Whereas Americans once tended to be misinformed about world politics, now they are uniformed. The US citizenry is embarrassingly and appallingly ignorant of the most elementary political realities in other nations and regions.”

Robert W. McChesney, ‘September 11 and the Structural Limitations of US Journalism’ in Journalism after September 11.

 

Journalists Who Care

Submitted by Nancy Rivenburgh:

“The media play a larger role in world affairs than we are comfortable acknowledging….We who are journalists or managers of newspaper and television empires have an obligation to help people in the ‘have’ part of the world stay informed about the ‘have nots’.”

Judy C. Woodruff, CNN, We Owe the World