“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with.”

~ Richard M. Cohen

(1948-) American journalist, television producer, and author. Former senior producer for CBS News and CNN

>>4608126

"I would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts and it is probably the most important thing that we do."

~ Carl Bernstein

(1944-) American investigative journalist, author, Washington Post reporter for Watergate scandal

>>4608134

"Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium."

~ William S. Paley

(1901-1990) Founder of CBS

Quoted in Broadcasting, May 31, 1976

>>4608140

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence."

~ Charles Austin Beard

(1874-1948) Professor at Columbia University

>>4608153

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize."

~ Sinclair Lewis

(1885-1951)

Letter, 1926

>>4608173

"And let us remind readers regularly, in editorials,in our promotional advertising, in speeches to civic groups and others, that advertising helps people to live better and saves them money. This fact needs constant selling."

~ Paul Miller

(1906-1991) President and CEO of Gannett Newspaper Chain (1957-78), President and Chairman of Associated Press (1963-77)

quoted in Editor & Publisher, September 16, 1961

>>4608216

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

~ Samuel Adams

(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."