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85 Mass Media quotes by 71 unique authors

Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are… — David Barton
[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass… — Howard Zinn
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. — Jacques Ellul
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they… — Ernst Fischer
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist… — Camille Paglia
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. — L. Neil Smith
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
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses… — Edward R. Murrow
If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect… — Susan J. Douglas
As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses… — Bell Hooks
Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and… — Chuck Klosterman
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with… — Ray Bradbury
In the developed countries of the capitalist world, the mass media are beginning to become businesses, and huge businesses at that. The freedom of journalists… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. — Bell Hooks
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born? — Chuck Palahniuk
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we… — William Bernbach
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be… — George Orwell
Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in… — John Treasure
Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain… — John Treasure
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. — Christopher Lasch
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we… — bell hooks
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian… — John le Carre
Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes. — Cameron Russell
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons. — Tim Wise

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