Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.
Alexander CockburnThere's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.
Alexander CockburnA childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander CockburnThe First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
Alexander Cockburn