I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
Bob WoodwardRead
I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the confusion and uncertainty people feel regarding media information.
Bob Woodward's quote illustrates the pervasive confusion that stems from the information presented by the media. It acknowledges that not only the general public but even media professionals themselves grapple with the reliability and clarity of the messages they receive, pointing to a larger issue of communication and truth in today's society.
In practice
This quote can be used during a discussion on media literacy.
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
There's hostility to lying, and there should be.
Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred.
The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.
It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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