Roger Rosenblatt Quotes
Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …
Roger Rosenblatt, Political Journalist, ‘Primary Colors- Anonymous?’, February 5, 1996
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Ailes was the inventor of the "Video News Release", a deceptive practice which was so successful that politicians of all political stripes started using it. Then government agencies started promoting their programs using it. But soon private corporations adopted Ailes technique and made the Video News Release a mainstream advertising and public relations technique and by 1990, it had lost all ethical taints and was used throughout the world with very little of the old moral and ethical compunctions or stigma.
For a similar sentiment, see Eric Cantona {276121}
This was her response to Sander Vanocur {618913}
Commenting on media criticism of her:
The George W. Bush administration was a very ideological one as opposed to pragmatic. They would not tolerate public officials who would say anything that might undermine an administrative ideological position. In particular, they did not want government scientists releasing any data or information that was not totally consistent with their ideology and program. They introduced a new policy within the government whereby no one could talk to a reporter or make a public speech or deliver a professional paper without first getting approval of administration “public affairs” agents first. Government scientists and other officials had never before been censored like this. Important scientific studies were not made public where they might not support the administration ideological positions. This is how the NASA public affairs official explained his role.
The main reason that the English or American Freedom of Information Act is not used so much by individuals is that the executive agencies make the process of obtaining documents very difficult and then when the government stonewalls, the requestor has to spend a great deal of time and often engage an attorney. The result is that few individuals can spend the time or money and the field consists mostly of media and non profit organizations which have staff and resources.
The leaks not only did not stop, but they became worse than ever.
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Roger Rosenblatt (born 1940) is an American memoirist, essayist, and novelist. He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University.
