Being a spectator of calamities taking place in an other country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half's worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Will Rogers
Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Marshall McLuhan
We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong....
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Suzy Kassem
S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.
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More Quotes By Sontag
What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?
Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it– say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken–or those who could learn from it. The...
Being a spectator of calamities taking place in an other country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering by more than a century and a half's worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists.
There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.
