The media—stenographers to power.
“The mediastenographers to power.”
“I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, ...”
“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”
“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”
“What a curious power words have.”
“I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”
“I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth an...”
“In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.”
