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Film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to…
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night of the hunter
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I was an accomplice to a slow and repeated and unacknowledged and unamended train wreck of failures that have brought us to now.
I’m a leader in an industry that miscalled election results, hyped up terror scares, ginned up controversy, and failed to report on tectonic shifts in our country.
I’m a leader in an industry that misdirected your attention with the dexterity of Harry Houdini while sending hundreds of thousands of our bravest young men and women off to war without due diligence.
The reason we failed isn’t a mystery. We took a dive for the ratings. In the infancy of mass communications, the Columbus and Magellan of broadcast journalism, William Paley and David Sarnoff, went down to Washington to cut a deal with Congress.
Congress would allow the fledgling networks free use of taxpayer-owned airwaves in exchange for one public service.That public service would be one hour of air time set aside every night for informational broadcasting, or what we now call the evening news.Congress, unable to anticipate the enormous capacity television would have to deliver consumers to advertisers, failed to include in its deal the one requirement that would have changed our national discourse immeasurably for the better.
!!!!!!Congress forgot to add that under no circumstances could there be paid advertising during informational broadcasting.They forgot to say that taxpayers will give you the airwaves for free and for 23 hours a day you should make a profit, but for one hour a night you work for us.!!!!!
From this moment on, we’ll be deciding what goes on our air and how it’s presented to you based on the simple truth that NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT TO A DEMOCRACY THAN A WELL-INFORMED ELECTORATE. We’ll endeavor to put information in a broader context because we know that very little news is born at the moment it comes across our wire. We’ll be the champion of facts and the mortal enemy of innuendo, speculation, hyperbole, and nonsense. We’re not waiters in a restaurant serving you the stories you asked for just the way you like them prepared. Nor are we computers dispensing only the facts because news is only useful in the context of humanity. I’ll make no effort to subdue my personal opinions. I will make every effort to expose you to informed opinions that are different from my own.
newsroom
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“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
― Leo Tolstoy
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51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature
3. “She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the…
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anthony kenny philosophy of history series
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rawls
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“Men often, from infirmity of character, make their election for the nearer good, though they know it to be the less valuable; and this no less when the choice is between two bodily pleasures, than when it is between bodily and mental. They pursue sensual indulgences to the injury of health, though perfectly aware that health is the greater good. It may be further objected, that many who begin with youthful enthusiasm for everything noble, as they advance in years sink into indolence and selfishness. But I do not believe that those who undergo this very common change, voluntarily choose the lower description of pleasures in preference to the higher. I believe that before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.”
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We do not say that a man who shows no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.(Pericles’ funeral oration, in Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 147)
Mortal Questions
Mortal Questions has 258 ratings and 11 reviews. Questions about our attitudes towards death, sexual behavior, social…
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
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Why We Can’t Wait — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why We Can’t Wait is a book by Martin Luther King, Jr. about the nonviolent movement against racial segregation in the…
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent…
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The Missing Shade of Blue
“ The Missing Shade of Blue” is an example introduced by the Scottish philosopher David Hume to show that it is at…
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Supervenience
In philosophy, supervenience is an ontological relation that is used to describe cases where (roughly speaking) the…
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And, while ye may, go marry;
For, having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
-Robert Herrick
Carpe diem — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
is the second-person singular present active imperative of “pick or pluck” used by Horace to mean “enjoy, seize, use…
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Horace — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC — November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace ( or )…
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Panpsychism is one of the oldest philosophical theories, and has been ascribed to philosophers like Thales, Plato…
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Philosophy of Mind
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“If your mind is going to cause your limbs to move, it presumably must first cause an appropriate neural event in your brain. But how is that possible? How can a mind, or a mental phenomenon, cause a bundle of neurons to fire? (Mental to physical) Through what mechanisms does a mental event, like a thought or a feeling, manage to initiate, or insert itself into, a causal chain of electrochemical neural events? And how is it possible for a chain of physical and biological events and processes to burst, suddenly and magically, into a full-blown conscious experience, with all its vivid colors, shapes, smells, and sounds? (Physical to mental) Think of your total sensory experience right now — visual, tactual, auditory, olfactory, and the rest: How is it possible for all this to arise out of molecular activities in the gray matter of your brain?”Excerpt From: Jaegwon, Kim. “Philosophy of Mind.”
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Utility monster
The utility monster is a thought experiment in the study of ethics created by philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974 as a…
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Robert Nozick — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Nozick (; November 16, 1938 — January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher who was most prominent in the 1970s…
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Moral Motivation
The basic phenomenon of moral motivation might be given a more systematic depiction as follows, using ‘ P ‘ to stand…
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Equivocation — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Equivocation (“to call by the same name”) is an informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more…
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Masked man fallacy
In philosophical logic, the masked man fallacy (also known as the intensional fallacy and the epistemic fallacy) is…
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On the basis of subjectivism, Adolf Hitler and the serial murderer Ted Bundy could be considered as moral as Gandhi, as long as each lived by his own standards whatever those might be. Witness the following paraphrase of a tape-recorded conversation between Ted Bundy and one of his victims, in which Bundy justifies his murder:
“Then I learned that all moral judgments are “value judgments,” that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either “right” or “wrong.” I even read somewhere that the Chief Justice of the United States had written that the American Constitution expressed nothing more than collective value judgments. Believe it or not, I figured out for myself — what apparently the Chief Justice couldn’t figure out for himself — that if the rationality of one value judgment was zero, multiplying it by millions would not make it one whit more rational. Nor is there any “reason” to obey the law for anyone, like myself, who has the boldness and daring — the strength of character — to throw off its shackles…. I discovered that to become truly free, truly unfettered, I had to become truly uninhibited. And I quickly discovered that the greatest obstacle to my freedom, the greatest block and limitation to it, consists in the insupportable “value judgment” that I was bound to respect the rights of others. I asked myself, who were these “others”? Other human beings, with human rights? Why is it more wrong to kill a human animal than any other animal, a pig or a sheep or a steer? Is your life more to you than a hog’s life to a hog? Why should I be willing to sacrifice my pleasure more for the one than for the other? Surely, you would not, in this age of scientific enlightenment, declare that God or nature has marked some pleasures as “moral” or “good” and others as “immoral” or “bad”? In any case, let me assure you, my dear young lady, that there is absolutely no comparison between the pleasure I might take in eating ham and the pleasure I anticipate in raping and murdering you. That is the honest conclusion to which my education has led me after the most conscientious examination of my spontaneous and uninhibited self.”
Notions of good and bad or right and wrong cease to have interpersonal evaluative meaning. We might be revulsed by Bundy’s views, but that is just a matter of taste.
