501 Quotes About Bias

Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.

Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

One of the cost of holding a Federal office was geographic isolation in the nation's capital.

One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

Harry S Truman despised settled conventions.

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?