Thinking quote
By Mary Rizzo • May 29th, 2008 at 8:00 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingIf you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell there is no freedom of the press… They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds.
Bill Moyers, Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1982.
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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The arrogance and selfishness of the First Gilded Age was exposed-and ended- by muckrakers who went out and investigated corruption in high places.
What passes as 'news' in USA is mindless entertainment fueled by the worship of celebrities.
But the times are always a changin' and HOPE arrived the day the New Fourth Estate was birthed because of the limp and MIA MSM.
If anyone could be credited as the first Civilian Journalist, it would have to be Rachel Corrie-who left the comforts of hearth and home to GO OUT, BEAR WITNESS and REPORT as accurately as she could and she wrote from her heart.
Because of the border-less world of the Internet, people who would never have crossed paths due to distance, now communicate easily via the World Wide Web.
All life is interdependent and interconnected and the Internet is the visible reality of this open mystery; and injustice anywhere effects us all everywhere.
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet."-Charlie Rose, 2005
"IMAGINE All the People Sharing All the World."-John Lennon
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