“The effect if not the function of the mass media seems to lie, therefore, in the reproduction of non- transparency through transparency, in the reproduction of non-transparency of effects through transparency of knowledge.”
Source: The reality of the Mass Media (2000), p. 103.
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Lim Guan Eng (1960) Finance Minister of Malaysia
Lim Guan Eng (2018) cited in " Economy remains strong, fundamentals solid, says Guan Eng https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2018/05/25/economy-remains-strong-fundamentals-solid-says-guan-eng/" on The Star Online, 25 May 2018
“Eyes so transparent that through them one sees the lucent soul.”
Ils sont si transparents qu'ils laissent voir votre âme.
"À Deux Beaux Yeux", line 12, in Poésies Complètes (Paris: Charpentier, 1845) p. 278; Maturin Murray Ballou (ed.) Notable Thoughts about Women (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882) p. 398.
“No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another’s.”
Michael Flynn book Eifelheim
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter 1 (p. 23)
Ana Brnabić (1975) Prime Minister of Serbia
Source: "Ana Brnabić: 'I do not want to be branded Serbia's gay PM'" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/28/ana-brnabic-serbia-prime-minister-interview (28 July 2017)
“Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction.”
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966)
Alberto Giacometti. Exhibition of sculptures, paintings, drawings. Pierre Matisse Gallery (New York, N.Y.), 1948. p. 36
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
Memo to The New Yorker (1959); reprinted in New York Times Book Review (4 December 1988)
Letters and interviews
Kirsten Gillibrand (1966) United States Senator from New York
Proposing reforms to increase transparency and accountability in Washington.
[Reforming the Way Washington Works, Gillibrand, Kirsten, The Huffington Post, AOL, Inc., 2010-07-20, 2015-07-08, https://web.archive.org/web/20100807221953/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-kirsten-gillibrand/reforming-the-way-washing_b_652793.html]
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Mainstream human rights into trade agreements and WTO practice – UN expert urges in new report http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20473&LangID=E#sthash.bn9VjkJJ.dpuf. <br class="br">2016, Mainstream human rights into trade agreements and WTO practice – UN expert urges in new report