"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."

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Source : "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

Carl Bernstein

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“My buildings are all on budget.”
“I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.”
“My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.”
“Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.”
“The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.”
“Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.”
“There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.”

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