The Quality Of Democracy And The Quality

A Journalist Is Basically A Chronicler, Not An Interpreter Of Events. Where Else In Society Do You Have The License To Eavesdrop On So Many Different Conversations As You Have In Journalism? Where Else Can You Delve Into The Life Of Our Times?

An Unconscious People, An Indoctrinated People, A People Fed Only Partisan Information And Opinion That Confirm Their Own Bias, A People Made Morbidly Obese In Mind And Spirit By The Junk Food Of Propaganda Is Less Inclined To Put Up A Fight, Ask Questions And Be Skeptical. And Just As A Democracy Can Die Of Too Many Lies, That Kind Of Orthodoxy Can Kill Us, Too.

People Who Don't Believe In Government Are Likely To Defy Our Government.

The Thing About War Is That Once It's Triggered, It Is Unyielding In Its Appetite. And The More It Consumes And Gorges, The More It Wants.

The Quality Of Democracy And The Quality Of Journalism Are Deeply Entwined.