"The press is supposed to equip people to act as citizens and not just consumers of programming that happens to be news."

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Source : "What Is - Or Should Be - Media's Role In Donald Trump's Rise?". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. April 2, 2016.

David Folkenflik

#People Quotes #Citizens Quotes #News Quotes

“Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.”

Source : Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)
“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.”

Source : "My 6,128 Favorite Books" by Joe Queenan, www.wsj.com. October 22, 2012.
“Anyone and everyone can and will succeed.”
“You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.”

Source : "Less Than Three Years: A Policy Revision". itre.cis.upenn.edu. January 04, 2007.
“I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.”
“I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.”
“I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!”
“During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.”

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