"Objectivity, in this sense, means that a person's statements about the world can be trusted if they are submitted to established rules deemed legitimate by a professional community. Facts here are not aspects of the world, but consensually validated statements about it."

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Source : Michael Schudson (1981). “Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers”, p.7, Basic Books

Michael Schudson

#Mean Quotes #Objectivity Quotes #Community Quotes

“Because it's our choices that makes us who we are...”
“The problem is that people really just don't care and they have been "educated" not to care about the monetary system: that it's boring, it's difficult to understand, we need to have high minded people like "Greenscum" and Bernanke to do things like this (and don't forget Volker, there's the whole cast of them). The thing is that people have been educated or miseducated or brainwashed into believing that this is wayyyy too complicated for regular people to understand and that we need to let PhD economists guide us along in terms of what's right... and that's all bull.”
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

Source : Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.101, Vintage
“It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things,”
“I didnâ€™t just experiment with ***** â€“ if you know what I mean.”
“In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.”
“I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.”

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