Quotes of Todd Gitlin - somelinesforyou

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ What happens is journalists get a whiff of blood in the water. A wounded president Reagan over Iran-Contra, Bush over Iraq is suddenly fair game, they think. The previously hesitant pack at last finds courage in numbers. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ”

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ What happens is journalists get a whiff of blood in the water. A wounded president Reagan over Iran-Contra, Bush over Iraq is suddenly fair game, they think. The previously hesitant pack at last finds courage in numbers. ”

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ 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

“ As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ”

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ What happens is journalists get a whiff of blood in the water. A wounded president Reagan over Iran-Contra, Bush over Iraq is suddenly fair game, they think. The previously hesitant pack at last finds courage in numbers. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ Access journalism has become the ends, not the means. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ”

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ”

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ Access journalism has become the ends, not the means. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ What happens is journalists get a whiff of blood in the water. A wounded president Reagan over Iran-Contra, Bush over Iraq is suddenly fair game, they think. The previously hesitant pack at last finds courage in numbers. ”

- Todd Gitlin

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

- Todd Gitlin

“ 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

“ Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ”

- Todd Gitlin

“ The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ”

- Todd Gitlin
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