Evgeny Morozov Quotes
The newspaper offers something very different from Google's aggregators. It offers a value system, an idea of what matters in the world. Newspapers need to start articulating that value.
Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. PublicAffairs, 2013.
In the age of digital electronics, the media, with its tendency to want to be the first to break any news story, reports events very quickly even when they have not verified what they are reporting. When an event occurs, the initial reports almost always include some errors and are incomplete with respect to critical information. There is no time for reflection and adding context. Then they often repeat the errors and omissions until there is more clarity and they begin to report a more accurate version. National Public Radio thus tries to “slow down” the news, not report it immediately but to wait for verification and allow the journalists some time for contemplation and reflection.
Bush was a very bright man who would frequently make statements and believe them that had almost no credibility for most other people. This is an example. He may have been the only person in America who actually believed that any presidential staff were or could be an objective source for news as he and they were often the news subjects and to be a staff member, particularly in his administration, the people had to have an ideological conformity to some basic world and national views. Bush was also not an avid reader despite the fact that his wife was a noted librarian, so he did not, as most other presidents did, commonly read leading newspapers and news magazines.
Evgeny Morozov (Russian: Eвге́ний Моро́зов; Belarusian: Яўгені Марозаў; born in 1984) is an American writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology. He was named one of the 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018.
