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"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."
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"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."

"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."

"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."

"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."

"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."
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"The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual."

"Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious."

"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."

"Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others."
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