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No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#journalism #propaganda #war #journalist

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. ↗

— John Pilger

#media #politics #journalist

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. ↗

— William T. Sherman

#glory #journalism #military

John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's. ↗

— David Craig

#atheists #biologists #friedrich-engels #god #humanists

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop] ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#first-day #police-officer #journalism

I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#future #loneliness #suicide #journalism

She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #city-of-fallen-angels

I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#looking-for-alaska #rain

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#journalism

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

#truth #journalism