I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about…

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. The only bookstores sold Bibles the size of…

— Mary Karr

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT…

— Mary Karr

“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass media to…

— Murray Bookchin

“What happened to truth? Did it go out of style?”

— Michael Jackson

“The history of irregular media operations is complex and fractured; generalizations are difficult. Yet it is possible to isolate three large and overlapping historical…

— Marc Hecker

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or…

— William Bernbach

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of…

— Lucy R. Lippard

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist…

— Julian Huxley

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

— Alex Steffen

Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially…

— William C. Brown

“Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

— David Riesman

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human…

— Abhijit Naskar

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't…

— Noam Chomsky