“whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.”
Review: Regarding the Pain of Others
"Television news producers and newspaper and magazine photo editors make decisions every day which firm up the wavering consensus about the boundaries of public knowledge. Often their decisions are cast as judgments about "good taste" -- always a repressive standard when invoked by institutions," Susan Sontag.