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Mass Media Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
- It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
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- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — 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… — Noam Chomsky
- Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this… — 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… — Clay Shirky
- Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In… — 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… — 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,… — Sibel Edmonds
- The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — 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… — Sam Smith