The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.
Bruce SpringsteenJudge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.
Bruce SpringsteenSomewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window. And what came in was, the most you can get and the least you can give. That's why cars are the way they are nowadays. It's just an erosion of all the things that were true and right about the original idea.
Bruce SpringsteenAll I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.
Bruce Springsteen