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In the newest book about I.F. Stone, All Governments Lie! The life and times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone, by Myra MacPherson, I read his definition of news and have decided to adopt it as my own – since I do a media watch show on KKFI 90.1 FM and have been trying to come up with a good def of WHAT constitutes ‘news.’
“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else – is advertising.” I.F. Stone
back in 1965 when I was in college via I.F Stone’s Weekly. I can’t tell you how nostaligic I feel on seeing this reference to him
I came on him late in life – like now! If I knew what I know now when I was 18 – this world would be a different place!
I am convinced that nothing we do and no one we elect will change things until we have an actual media that does its job. That and when we shorten the length of campaigns to something less than a millennium! and one that costs less than running a medium-sized nation! Until then – it’s all moot and moan.
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