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Quote by John Berger
The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own

The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting. – Rose Maccaulay

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The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. – Michel De Certeau

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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. – George Bernard Shaw

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