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"You should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth."
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The Establishment
In sociology and in political science, the term the establishment describes the dominant social group, the elite who control a polity, an organization, or an institution. In the praxis of wealth and power, the Establishment usually is a self-selecting, closed elite entrenched within specific institutions—hence, a relatively small social class can exercise all socio-political control.
"You should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth."
"Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words impartiality and objectivity is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. Theyve been taken over... [they] now mean the establishment point of view... Journalists dont sit down and think, Im now going to speak for the establishment. Of course not. But they internalise a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity."