Books & Articles Put Up In
Past Year
"Free and responsible
government by popular consent just can't exist without an informed
public."
Bill Moyers
BOOKS
2010
2009
"When it comes
to world history, politics, and even geography, our educational
system is so abysmal that Americans know little if anything about
them by the time they start reading the news as adults."
Tom Fenton, former CBS
foreign correspondent
"The news and the truth
are not the same thing. "
Walter Lippmann
"No people can be both
ignorant and free."
Thomas Jefferson
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ARTICLES
"I wouldn't
call it fascism exactly, but [an American] political system nominally
controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are
manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that
dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can
hardly be described as democracy either."
Edward Zehr
"Those who know the least
obey the best."
George Farquhar
"You don't have to burn
books to destroy a culture, just get the people to stop reading
them."
Ray Bradbury
"The people will believe
what the media tells them they believe."
George Orwell
"During times of universal
deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."
George Orwell
"Books ... are
an excellent container for the accumulation, quiet scrutiny and
organized analysis of
information and ideas. It takes time to write a book, and to read
one; time to discuss its contents and to make judgments about
their merit, including the form of their presentation. A book
is an attempt to make thought permanent and to contribute to the
great conversation conducted by authors of the past."
Neil Postman
"If fascism ever came
to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag."
Huey Long
"Capitalism is the extraordinary
belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will
somehow work for the benefit of all."
John Maynard Keynes
"The price good people
pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by
evil men."
Plato
"The problem is not that
a computer network [Internet] offers an alternative to the information
aristocracy. The true crisis is that neither the news media nor
the government has enough credibility to be accepted as either
truthful or impartial on their own."
military writer William M. Arkin
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OLDER ARTICLES
"We can be controlled
by simply not being informed, by limiting our access to the facts
so that we perceive no need to be concerned or take action."
David Edwards - Burning All Illusions
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