When we pick up our newspaper at breakfast, we expect—we even demand—that it bring us momentous events since the night before. We turn on the car radio as we drive to work and expect “news” to have occurred since the morning newspaper went to press. Returning in the evening, we expect our house not only [...]
Archive for the ‘USA’ Category
What Americans expect
Posted in Quotation, USA on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My election ballot: National
Posted in Politics, Portland, USA on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Republicans deserve the broom.
United States President: Barack Obama (D)
United States Senate: Jeff Merkley (D)
United States Representative, 3rd District: Earl Blumenauer (D)
American freedom
Posted in History, Quotation, USA on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The land of the free! [America] is the land of the free! Why, if I say anything that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that’s my freedom. Free? Why I have never been in any country where the individual has such an abject fear of his fellow-countrymen. Because, as I say, they [...]
Newspaper control
Posted in History, Media, Quotation, USA on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Newspapers have a much greater importance in America than they do in Europe. You must not conclude, however, that the press is more free in the New World than in the Old. With us it is the government that watches over and controls the newspapers; in the United States, the religious sects and political parties [...]
