Quote by Carl Bernstein
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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. – Carl Bernstein

Other quotes by Carl Bernstein

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. – Carl Bernstein

Category:
Media
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The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most peoples lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. – Carl Bernstein

Category:
Truth
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Other Quotes from
Television
category

What compels you to stare, night after night, at all the glittering hokum that has been deliberately put together for you? – J.B. Priestley, about Americans

Category:
Television

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980s. – Doug Ferrari

Category:
Television

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? – Nicholas Johnson

Category:
Television

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. – Author Unknown

Category:
Television

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