A Welcome Message
to the Exalt Ideas and Information Blog
It was in his speech to the 1958 RTNDA Convention (Radio and Television News Directors Association) Edward R. Murrow said, “Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.” He also made several other statements, throughout his career, which should resonate with Americans today. It is in his spirit of ideas and information I post these quotes as inspiration for this Blog.
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men— not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular… We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
Table of Contents:
Election 2008:
Republicans Using Georgia as Test Lab?
Politician Plays the Sex Offender Card – AGAIN
Culture & Education:
Criminal Justice:
Policy Failure of Colossal Proportions
The Truth About Internet Predators
Politician Lies and Media Myths Hurt Women and Children
The Mainstream Media: A Reality Check
Why did Christopher Barrios Die?
Where are the “Child Saviors?”
States Rethink Trying Juveniles as Adults
Sex Offender Law takes Beating in Court
Politician Plays the Sex Offender Card – AGAIN
Health and Wellness:
Hope for Hearts
Learning from the Past:
Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
Another Nail in Lady Liberty’s Coffin?
Politics and Politicians:
Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
No 1st Amendment Problems Here
Why did Christopher Barrios Die?
Where are the “Child Saviors?”
States Rethink Trying Juveniles as Adults
Sex Offender Law takes Beating in Court
The Few, The Proud, The Disillusioned
Republicans Using Georgia as Test Lab?
Politician Plays the Sex Offender Card – AGAIN
Another Nail in Lady Liberty’s Coffin?
Sustainable Growth:
A Human Revolution
Middle East Policy:
The Few, The Proud, The Disillusioned
War and Peace:
The Few, The Proud, The Disillusioned
Media:
WMD = Weapons of Mass Deception
The Mainstream Media: A Reality Check
Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine
Yellow Journalism in Augusta, Georgia
Where are the “Child Saviors?”
Rainy Night in Georgia:
Republicans Using Georgia as Test Lab?
Right Wing Organizations:
Egregious Radical Religions:
“Nothing is more pitiful than a nation being swept along by fools.”
–Daisaku Ikeda
The Human Revolution
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