Mass Media Quotes

85 quotes by 71 authors

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… — Noam Chomsky
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been… — Andrew Weil
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. — David Riesman
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. — Jacques Ellul
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the… — Clay Shirky
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
I think that all money can do is to get your message out. Unfortunately, we live in a world where you have to use mass… — Michael Bloomberg
And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just… — Sibel Edmonds
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know… — Sam Smith
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. — Akbar S. Ahmed
The mass media are class media. — Michael Pare
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. — Warren Beatty
If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does… — Daniel Pinchbeck
I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets… — Joichi Ito
Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including… — Noam Chomsky
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through… — Alva Myrdal

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