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“For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?With all due respect.According to the agent, the biggest fact...”
“In the absence of a confirmed fact, rumors are usually sanctified as the truth. And that is what goes out there in the media.”
“Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget.”
“I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.”
“In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.”
“The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news… and it’s not entirely the media’s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.”
“A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.”