People don't want to be informed; they only want the illusion of being informed.

--Roger Ailes (Chairman of Fox News, former executive producer of Rush Limbaugh's TV talk show, one-time imagemaker and political consultant to Reagan, Bush, Nixon and Rudy Giuliani) in "New York" magazine, 1997.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

--Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".