इन दिनों मीडिया के अपराधों को लेकर आप जितनी भी शिकायतें सुनते हैं, उनमें से ऐसा लगता है कि आलोचकों से मुख्य बात छूट जाती है। वह यह है कि विशेष रूप से टीवी, बल्कि हम प्रिंट मीडिया वाले भी, उलझनों, जटिलताओं और अस्पष्टता को एक साधारण सी कहानी में समेट देते हैं जो वास्तविकता को दर्शाने के बजाय उसे विकृत करती है। ...पत्रकारिता की जो प्रवृत्ति अनियंत्रित वास्तविकता को खुद में सीमित, फिल्मी छोटे-छोटे नाटकों में ढालने की है, उससे मुझे केवल इसलिए आपत्ति नहीं है कि हम ऐसा करके झूठ परोसते हैं। बल्कि इसलिए भी कि हम वास्तव में एक अच्छी कहानी से चूक जाते हैं।
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.
सिद्धांत रूप में हर कोई लोकतंत्र के पक्ष में है। यह तो बस व्यवहार में है जब यह चीज़ गंभीर आपत्तियों को जन्म देती है।
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
हर कोई किसी झूठे व्यक्ति के खिलाफ दौड़ता हुआ प्रतीत होता है, पर कोई भी ऐसा नहीं लगता कि वह खुद झूठा हो। अजीब बात है—मेरा मतलब है, यह गणित बैठता ही नहीं है।
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.
Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.
यदि कोई राजनेता अपनी माँ की हत्या कर देता है, तो प्रेस या उसके विरोधियों की पहली प्रतिक्रिया शायद यह नहीं होगी कि यह एक भयानक काम था, बल्कि यह होगी कि छह साल पहले दिए गए एक बयान में उसने आधिकारिक तौर पर मातृत्व-हत्या (मैट्रिसाइड) के खिलाफ अपना रुख दर्ज कराया था।
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
यदि आप वित्तीय अनुशासन लागू करने के लिए शून्य से शुरुआत करके कोई यंत्र बनाना चाहें, तो पृथ्वी पर आप जिस आखिरी चीज़ के बारे में सोचेंगे, वह संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका की सरकार होगी।
If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.
If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.
सरकार के भीतर और बाहर, नौकरशाही के ऐसे विशाल दायरे हैं जो कार्रवाई से बचने के लिए, जरूरत पड़े तो अनंत काल तक, अधिक से अधिक जानकारी जुटाने में लगे रहते हैं।
In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.
In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.
वाशिंगटन में बदनाम होना भी एक सम्मान की बात है। गिरने के लिए आपका पहले कुछ होना जरूरी है।
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
राजनीति का नब्बे प्रतिशत हिस्सा यह तय करने में बीत जाता है कि दोष किस पर मढ़ा जाए।
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
कब से वयस्क पुरुषों और महिलाओं, जो उच्च सरकारी पद संभालने और अपनी समझ से "नैतिक नेतृत्व" का दावा करने का दम भरते हैं, उन्हें यह बताने के लिए नैतिकता अधिकारियों की आवश्यकता पड़ने लगी कि सेक्रेटरी की पीठ थपथपाना या सार्वजनिक धन को अपने निजी फायदे के लिए इस्तेमाल करना स्वीकार्य है या नहीं?
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
बदले की ताकतें हमेशा सुनती रहती हैं। वे कभी नहीं सोतीं।
The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
देवताओं की परीक्षा लेने जैसी भी एक चीज़ होती है। बहुत अधिक, बहुत जल्दी और बहुत अधिक आत्म-संतोष के साथ बात करना मुझे हमेशा से तबाही को बुलावा देने का एक पक्का तरीका लगा है। बदले की ताकतें हमेशा सुनती रहती हैं। वे कभी नहीं सोतीं।
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
हेरफेर करने वालों (मैनिपुलेटर्स) के लिए उन लोगों से ज्यादा खतरनाक कुछ नहीं है जो खुद सोचना चुनते हैं।
There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.
There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.
पतली खाल (संवेदनशीलता) ही एकमात्र ऐसी खाल है जिसके साथ इंसान पैदा होता है।
Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.
Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.
वाशिंगटन का, चाहे डेमोक्रेट्स के अधीन हो या रिपब्लिकन के, 'जनता' के प्रति एक अत्यधिक विक्षिप्त रवैया रहा है। यह संदेह, घृणा, डर, सम्मान और निर्भरता के बराबर हिस्सों से मिलकर बना है।
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.