Alisa Miller Head Of Public Radio International Talks About Why -- Though We Want To Know More About The World Than Ever -- The US Media Is Actually Showing Less Eye-opening Stats And Graphs Quotes

Ernst Fischer: "The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster." # Disasters # Media # Television

V S Pritchett: "Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game." # Adolescence # Education # Museums and Galleries

Frank Bainimarama: ""They have their heads continuously buried in the sand in the hope that they do not have to answer to any of their wrongdoings. This smacks highly of a bullying government lacking character."" # Disasters

David Mamet: "The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious." # Disasters # Translation # Innocence

John Reeves: "Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual." # Media # Acting and Actors # Visualization

Adi Asenaca Caucau: ""There seems to be a lot of love-hate relationships in Fiji today, between so many and the media, simply because there are so many negative reporting and a serious lack of understanding on journalists' part on working on reports or their stories. I am actually hoping for more from the Fiji media and the region, we need a whole lot more positive reporting."" # Journalism and Journalists

Peter Jennings: "Peter Jennings represented all that was best in journalism and public service. A man of conscience and integrity, his reporting was a guide to all of us who aspire to better the world around us. I learned from him and was inspired by him. ~ Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State" # Journalism and Journalists # Conscience # Books - Reading

Émile Zola: "Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it -- my honor! At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal which is the representative of human justice, before you, gentle. men, who are the very incarnation of the country, before the whole of France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By my forty years of work, by the authority that this toil may have given me, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By all I have now, by the name I have made for myself, by my works which have helped for the expansion of French literature, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. May all that melt away, may my works perish if Dreyfus be not innocent! He is innocent. All seems against me -- the two Chambers, the civil authority, the most widely-circulated journals, the public opinion which they have poisoned. And I have for me only an ideal of truth and justice. But I am quite calm; I shall conquer. I was determined that my country should not remain the victim of lies and injustice. I may be condemned here. The day will come when France will thank me for having helped to save her honor." # Journalism and Journalists # Age and Aging # Literature

Michel De Certeau: "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." # Media # Silence # Statistics

Rush Limbaugh: "My comment was actually a comment aimed at the media, not even at McNabb. It's not by any stretch of the imagination a putdown. It doesn't say McNabb is bad." # Media # Critics and Criticism # Imagination