Today's Meditation

Re: Bush Administration blaming the media for the mess in Iraq

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

      -- H.L. Mencken, newspaperman and curmudgeon (1880-1956)

(h/t: Ted Pease)

Today's Meditation

Oh yeah, tell me your problems:

The difficulty in keeping well informed today is not that news is scarce, but that there is so much more 'news' each day than the average man can assimilate.

        --Henry R. Luce, founder and editor, Time magazine, 1940

Of course, it all depends what you mean by ''news.''

Via Ted Pease's WORD.

Today's Meditation

"Ah, ce métier où l'on passe la  moitié de sa vie à parler de ce qu'on ne connaît pas et l'autre moitié à  taire ce que l'on sait !''
               -- Henri Béraud, sur le journalisme

In other words ...

Ah, this trade where you spend half your life talking about things you know nothing about, and the other half suppressing what you do know!

Hat tip to Pauline Couture.

Cry Freedom

"I support the free press, let's just get them out of the room."

   - U.S. President George W. Bush, on learning that journalists were listening as he discussed domestic eavesdropping with advisors, 2/10/06

Source: CBS News