« "In fact, all political leaders in the United States should now face the death penalty for these actions, under U.S. law." »

« Before advertising took the predominant place known to it, production costs had to be covered by the selling price. As advertising grew, the newspapers that attracted it were quickly able to offer sales rates well below the actual costs. Titles that were not favoured by advertisers were at a serious disadvantage: they were among the most expensive, their sales were collapsing, their cash flow preventing them from facing the investments that would have supported sales - presentation, attractive format, distribution, etc. A media system dominated by advertising naturally tends to eliminate or marginalize bodies financed by their sales alone. By doing so, free trade offers anything but a neutral system in which s e l e c tion is based on final demand. It is the preferences of advertisers that determine the prosperity, or even the very survival of a media. »

« `...` The empirical problem we face today is that no one has been able to imagine an initial hypothesis rich enough to account for the child's acquisition of the grammar that we are apparently led to attribute to him when we try to explain his ability to use the language in a normal way. The idea of a common origin does nothing to explain how possible it is. In short, language is "reinvented" every time it is learned, and the empirical problem facing learning theory is how this invention took place. »