Thousands of Wounds make
Only One Newspaper Article²
Markets Define the News – not
The Experience of the Besieged³
You’d Learn more about the world by
Lying on the couch Drinking Gin out of
The Bottle – than by watching the News⁴
Our Disinformation Campaign is complete when
Everything the American Public believes is False⁵
Newspapers Report Doings in a Life I do not Share⁶
Media always Report – but the Full Truth is …⁷
Journalism Curdles All one’s Mind to Phrases⁸
A Weary man enters the Broadcasting
Stations seeking a cheering item of
News and exits from them Slain⁹
I Never Read any Memorable
News in a Newspaper¹⁰
¹ Naomi Shihab Nye, Blood
² Guillaume Apollinaire tr. Anne Greet, Shadow
³ Carolyn Forché, Introductionto Against Forgetting
⁴ Garrison Keillor
⁵ William Casey (CIA director)
⁶ Richard Wright, Black Boy
⁷ Eman Al-astal, Half Truths
⁸ H.G. Wells, The Land Ironclads
⁹ Khalid Abu Khalid tr. Jayyusi & Nye, Prayer to the Tremor
¹⁰ Henry David Thoreau, Walden