Access journalism has become the ends, not the means.
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.Todd Gitlin
You're in the news business and you're in the business of arresting the attention of people and prying them away from what they take for granted. They must read the next day's paper and so on. While the desire to gain attention is a dynamic in journalism, it's not the only one. The predominant dynamic since journalism's inception has been the desire to capture the attention of people. Another dynamic is the extension of democratic enlightenment.
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The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
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We are in the midst of a tremendous global revolution, ... and the consequences are on a scale that are hitherto unprecedented.
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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
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