The country is not yet a theocracy but the Republican Party is, |
the most respected journalist in America. |
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience-there and then gone. |
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians -- they stay bought. |
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle. |
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. |
We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings. |
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience. |
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do. |
We're seeing unfold a contemporary example of the age-old ambition of power and ideology to squelch and punish journalists who tell the stories that make princes and priests uncomfortable. |
What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it -- as if the cause depends on you, because it does. |
When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also whether God is just. At those moments, our only hope is to seek every evidence that God is just, by communing with the people we know who are strongest in faith. |
When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. |