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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Criticism
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Art
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Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. – Stanley Baldwin

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The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. – Warren Chappell

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If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph the event… what kind of film would you use? – Author Unknown

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Media

The only reason this country is different from any place else is that once in a great while, this huge, snobbish, generally untalented news reporting business stops covering stories of interest only to itself and actually serves the public. – Jimmy Breslin

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