When I First Came To The United

Propaganda Is Persuading People To Make Up Their Minds While Withholding Some Of The Facts From Them.

When I Was Studying At Chicago And At Stanford University, Where Many Many Cases Of Two People Observing The Same Event Have A Different Take On What Happened.

The Democratization Of News Is Fine And Splendid, But It's Not Reporting. It's Based On A Fragment Of Information Picked Up From Television Or The Web, And People Are Sounding Off About Something That's Not Necessarily True.

We Always Talk About How Everyone Is Unifocal. You Can't Possibly Be Interested In Jazz And Beethoven. Of Course You Can. You Can't Both Be Reading A Newspaper And Be Online. Of Course You Can. We Shouldn't Be Obsessed With A Gun To Your Head, 'you Either Read A Newspaper Or Die!'

Television And Radio Are What I Call Sequential Media; They're Not Simultaneous Media. With Simultaneous Media, You Can Scan Your Eye Down An Electronic Or Print Page And Pick Among Six Or Seven Stories You Might Like And Want To Read. With Television And Radio, You Have To Wait Until The Guy's Finished Talking About The Balloon Boy, Which I Don't Have The Slightest Interest In, To Find Out That All Hell's Broken Loose In Baghdad. Because They've Chosen That Day To Start With The Balloon Boy.