tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984499113019674536.post3500569472706426805..comments2024-03-27T02:14:18.237-07:00Comments on Beers with Demo: Not so random thought of the dayDeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02448369692335981936noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984499113019674536.post-620122281530269902012-09-24T21:54:21.053-07:002012-09-24T21:54:21.053-07:00"In just over 3-1/2 years he and his administ..."In just over 3-1/2 years he and his administration have managed to transform an entire media structure"<br /><br />The media have always been like this. It's just that now we realize it, thanks to the Web.<br /><br />"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell (June 11, 1807)<br /><br />"The fat Russian agent was cornering all the foreign refugees in turn and explaining plausibly that this whole affair was an Anarchist plot. I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies - unless one counts journalists." --George Orwell, "Homage to Catalonia" (1938)<br /><br />Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. --Erwin Knoll, editor, "The Progressive"<br /><br />"We foreign journalists in Moscow used to amuse ourselves, as a matter of fact, by competing with one another as to who could wish upon one of these intelligentsia visitors to the USSR the most outrageous fantasy." --Malcolm Muggeridge, "The Great Liberal Death Wish". http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/MuggeridgeLiberal.phpNate Whilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03309570046510278367noreply@blogger.com