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Carl Bernstein
American
Journalist
About the author
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein,
American
Journalist
#People
#Being
#Today
#Popular
#Culture
#Information
#Truth
#Americans
#Reality
#Journalism
#Contempt
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein,
American
Journalist
#Time
#First
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Carl Bernstein,
American
Journalist
#Today
#Quality
#Business
#News
#Quantity
#Accuracy
The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein,
American
Journalist
#Will
#Fear
#May
#First
#Information
#Questions
#Pressure
#Environment