“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in a speech at the 1978 Harvard University Commencement
(I can easily imagine both Hersh and some in the “conservative” segment of today’s blogosphere … screaming that … the Solzhenitsyn dude is a Commie!)
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Good one!
A. J. Liebling said: “Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.”
Hersh essentially said: Truth is merely how one wishes to define it (at the moment.)
Hersh and Humpty-Dumpty had something in common.
Liebling had a firm understanding of the history of journalism.
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“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. Such as it is, however, the press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: By what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in a speech at the 1978 Harvard University Commencement
(I can easily imagine both Hersh and some in the “conservative” segment of today’s blogosphere … screaming that … the Solzhenitsyn dude is a Commie!)
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