Occasional reminder to people in the new... by Russell Blackford | We Heart Quotes

Occasional reminder to people in the news media. A troll is not a stray person who makes a nasty, perhaps fair perhaps not, criticism of a celebrity whom you're sympathetic to. A troll is an online provocateur, someone who makes maddening comments to fish for outraged responses.

- Russell Blackford

Other quotes by Russell Blackford

A problem with trusting the mainstream media these days is the immense decline in journalistic standards and editorial support introduced for cost-cutting reasons.

- Russell Blackford

If the news media want to be trusted they need to report the facts objectively and accurately, not tell us what to think about an event without telling us exactly what the event was.

- Russell Blackford

Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that — feelings — and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them.

- Russell Blackford

You don't know whether or not what someone else says is heartfelt. You might be inclined to judge that they're sincere from the way they express themselves, but it's not a publicly ascertainable fact. I cringe whenever I see a news report that somebody said something 'heartfelt'.

- Russell Blackford

When did the mainstream media and the political culture get taken over by some nineteenth-century Methodist Temperance Union? The puritanism has reached ridiculous proportions of late, and from the political Left almost as much as the Right.

- Russell Blackford

Religion is inherently controversial. It's quite okay to satirize religious teachings or practices, to criticize them harshly, to try to get people to abandon them, etc. There's no need to be 'moderate' about this.

- Russell Blackford

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