Juliana Hatfield Quotes
Doing interviews can sometimes mess up my head. It makes me feel dirty. It's frustrating how the press recycles a quote to death.
Hatfield, Juliana. When I Grow Up: A Memoir. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
No Presient, before and perhaps since. was so effective with the press and the media. Yet Roosevelt did not use a basic technique of modern political presidential press techniques—that of always being “on message” and repeating the same point over and over. TR thought that would lead to loss of credibility and perhaps he was right because no one trusts what a modern President says today to the degree that TR was believed by both the press and the public.
This is perhaps a situation that has existed in every country ever where the press was not controlled.
In 1948 in the midst of the Red Scare the HUAC and its Senate counterpart had started to hound a former Assistant Secretary of State, Lawrence Duggan. Typical of the times, those who disagreed with Duggan’s political views anonymously leaked material to the press alleging that Duggan might have been a spy. The press had a feeding frenzy and Dugan committed suicide in the midst of the pressure. Most in Congress paused to contemplate the consequence of what was occurring. Even Richard M. Nixon regretted the “misunderstandings.” Dugan’s father, however, an old acquaintance of Edward R. Murrow, the then dean of American broadcasters, however primarily blamed the press for printing all the unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo.
Responding to reporters who asked him if he was going to bolt the Socialist Party:
Juliana Hatfield is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Juliana Hatfield Three, along with bassist Dean Fisher and drummer Todd Philips, which was active in the mid-1990s and again in the mid-2010s. It was with the Juliana Hatfield Three that she produced her best-charting work, including the critically acclaimed albums Become What You Are (1993) and Whatever, My Love (2015) and the singles "My Sister" (1993) and "Spin the Bottle" (1994).
