Bernard Ingham famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
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The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
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Confidentiality is the nature of all governments. Of course you may say, the government will always want to communicate the good news; things which bring satisfaction, cheer, help or pleasure to voters. And of course, you are right, governments are not masochists by nature.
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Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
-- Bernard Ingham
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing.
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With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.
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[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.
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Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
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Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie!
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