L. Neil Smith Quotes About Media
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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