We have to give the sad news that we have found another victim. Only one more person lies buried under the rubble.

It would be irresponsible to let them press on.

Specialists were brought in to examine the structure. They decided it would be irresponsible to continue sending rescue workers into the building, so the missing people have to stay where they are.

The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal.

For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media.