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At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

~David Puttnam

Topics: Control Corporations Discourse Go Granted Least Longer Media Politicians Power Public Take Take For Granted West

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It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

~David Whyte

Topics: Afraid Artificial Average Difficulty Discourse Human Human Life Life More Narratives Outer Poetry Present Province Realistic Than Truthful

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In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: About Common Communicators Conversation Conversational Discourse Enlightenment Entertainment Great In The Past More Now Orator Past Public Sound Than Today Were

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The social-media discourse is very different from what it might be on the ground. It's easy to bloviate without having to look anyone in the eye and then having those sentiments swell and amplify and go viral.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Amplify Anyone Different Discourse Easy Eye Go Ground Having Look Might Sentiments Swell Then Those Very Viral Without

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A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Agree Civility Course Dictate Dictated Disagree Discourse For The People Government Our People Politicians Report Requires Talk Then Those Who Will

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Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

~Douglas Wilder

Topics: Actual Automatic Been Debate Democratic Democratic Society Discourse Eliminate Entertainers Expert Filibuster Goes Healthy Instead La Media Necessary Need Our Replaced Robust Sensors Smith Society Spin Talking Washington Mr

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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

~Ed Gillespie

Topics: Amount Believe Beyond Democrats Discourse Goes Hate Low New Other Political Politics Presidential Rhetoric Seeing Side Speech Today Unprecedented

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I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Always Architecture Bankrupt Build Corrupt Discourse Forms Intellectually Interested More Never Other Rebel Slightly Thought Wanted

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The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Affairs Artificial Culture Discourse Foreign Foreign Policy International More Nowhere Policy Politics Separation Than

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If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

~Eric Alterman

Topics: Advisory Answer Bloggers Body Busy Discourse Helping Improve Judge Make Necessary Our Peers People Perhaps Public Reliability Sense Some Sort Standard Strictly Uninformed Use Which World

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