Information Disparity Quotes

When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers—that is not freedom of the press.

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama.

[M]any believed but few knew very much.

You can’t have simultaneous notification on important issues. Some people always get the word before others.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.

If you have a full understanding of what we’re up against and the leadership of your country doesn’t, well, hello. That’s life in America today.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.

I am learning more about Panama from CNN than from the CIA

I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.