"My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to the voiceless, and to provide people with information that they can use to make informed decisions about what policies they want enacted in their name and what policies they don't."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Jeremy Scahill

#Jobs Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Simple Quotes

“When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!”
“I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.”
“When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.”
“In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.”

Source : Speech fragment, 1794.
“I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.”

Source : "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.
“Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.”
“Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.”
“Group action - yes; group thinking - no”

Source : Norman Lamm (2002). “Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith”, p.222, KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

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