Christopher Lasch

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.