Stewart Alsop Quotes
The relationship between the press and the president is always inherently bad; it's never good.
Stewart Alsop, 1914-1974, Journalist, Oral history, LBJ Library, July 15, 1969
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For a similar sentiment, see Eric Cantona {276121}
Otehr members of the Trump staff then started to echo the notion and it became common in Trumpian circles.
The American Press was actually split and there were Tory and revolutionary editors. However, like almost all politicians of all times in time of crisis, he saw the press as inaccurate and corrupt and an unfortunate “appendage of public liberty.”
The story had been placed by Republican dirty tricksters throughout the press. Reston, then the editor of the New York Times, was totally uninterested in whether or not the story was true. He, in contrast to some other NYT staff was not a JFK enthusiast in general. but saw such material as not news and certainly not “fit to print.”—the newspaper’s oldest journalistic standard He removed the reporter from the assignment but in such a climate, it is easy to see in retrospect why the JFK sex scandals were not covered by the press.
Note how the second paragraph nullifies the first of the government declares an emergency. This is a trick that is very common in constitutions.
Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was echoing criticisms that were made the world over and even by some in the United States. However, his solution to have the press controlled by the ruling party just changed the cast of characters who were propagandizing and distorting the truth. Lenin was not able to offer a better solution nor were others. However, with enough affluence the capitalist society produced enough different publishers all competing that one did not dominate public opinion. With technology of TV and the Internet, the bar to entry is so small that almost anyone can be a publisher and find an interested market. In a way technology has solved much of the problem for capitalistic and totalitarian societies alike. In the latter, even censorship is not easy or feasible on a large scale.
He was commenting on the new Donald Trump's attacks onthe media.
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.
