6 Quotes & Sayings By Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin is Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley, where he founded the Graduate School of Journalism. He was a founding member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where he chaired the Committee on Public Culture. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute and chairs the New York City Human Rights Commission's Committee on Hate Crimes Read more

He is also an Advisory Editor for The New York Review of Books. His books include Inside Prime Time, The Sixties, To The Finland Station, Gods in Exile, and The Twilight of Identity.

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Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. Todd Gitlin
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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
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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism. Todd Gitlin
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Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. Todd Gitlin
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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. Todd Gitlin