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It's too hot to handle. He was scathing toward Bush and it was absolutely devastating. They don't know how to handle such a pointed and aggressive criticism. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

It's too hot to handle. He was scathing toward Bush and it was absolutely devastating. They don't know how to handle such a pointed and aggressive criticism.

You're in the news business and you're in the business of arresting the attention of people and prying them away from what they take for granted. They must read the next day's paper and so on. While the desire to gain attention is a dynamic in journalism, it's not the only one. The predominant dynamic since journalism's inception has been the desire to capture the attention of people. Another dynamic is the extension of democratic enlightenment. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

You're in the news business and you're in the business of arresting the attention of people and prying them away from what they take for granted. They must read the next day's paper and so on. While the desire to gain attention is a dynamic in journalism, it's not the only one. The predominant dynamic since journalism's inception has been the desire to capture the attention of people. Another dynamic is the extension of democratic enlightenment.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories? - Todd Gitlin Quotes

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

Life

We are in the midst of a tremendous global revolution, ... and the consequences are on a scale that are hitherto unprecedented. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

We are in the midst of a tremendous global revolution, ... and the consequences are on a scale that are hitherto unprecedented.

People who feel that their ways of life are threatened or feel generally anxious or confused about the way things are going are disposed to look for causes. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

People who feel that their ways of life are threatened or feel generally anxious or confused about the way things are going are disposed to look for causes.

Life

Can't address the big fact that the bulk of life is taking place under the pressure of an onslaught of images. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

Can't address the big fact that the bulk of life is taking place under the pressure of an onslaught of images.

Life

I think we have a national attention deficit disorder, ... Because we're so itchy. We're changing the channel, the camera is constantly moving, the edits are flying thick and fast. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

I think we have a national attention deficit disorder, ... Because we're so itchy. We're changing the channel, the camera is constantly moving, the edits are flying thick and fast.

Access journalism has become the ends, not the means. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

Access journalism has become the ends, not the means.

It's not a bunch of green-haired kids with punctures in their faces. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

It's not a bunch of green-haired kids with punctures in their faces.

Kids

When bin Laden bombed the embassies in '98, what TV and print were obsessed with was not terrorism -- but Monica Lewinsky. - Todd Gitlin Quotes

When bin Laden bombed the embassies in '98, what TV and print were obsessed with was not terrorism -- but Monica Lewinsky.

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