John Hockenberry People Quotations

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.

At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.