"The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld."

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Source : "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.

Carl Bernstein

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“In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.”
“I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.”
“Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.
“With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.”
“Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.”
“Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.”
“My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.”
“This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.”

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