Thomas Sowell Quotes
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Sowell, Thomas. "Media Propaganda." Creators Syndicate, 21 Oct. 2008.
Bush was a very bright man who would frequently make statements and believe them that had almost no credibility for most other people. This is an example. He may have been the only person in America who actually believed that any presidential staff were or could be an objective source for news as he and they were often the news subjects and to be a staff member, particularly in his administration, the people had to have an ideological conformity to some basic world and national views. Bush was also not an avid reader despite the fact that his wife was a noted librarian, so he did not, as most other presidents did, commonly read leading newspapers and news magazines.
Every President in recent times had been distressed with and critical of the press, not no President (or for that matter any senior government official or legislator) has ever used the famous Ibsen phrase enemy of the people or accused the major media outlets of being an enemy of the American citizens or the nation itself--of treason.
Thomas Sowell is an American economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
