Michael Pollan Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.”

“Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.”

“Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.”

“The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.”

“The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.”