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Media Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
- Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
- Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised…
- Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
- The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences.…
- 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…
- He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
- Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.
- It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.
- People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They…
- The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business party. Most of…
- It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
- Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active…
- In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was…
- Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
- ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.…
- One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
- Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to…
- You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system…
- The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
More Media Quotes
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- If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. — Julian Assange
- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you,… — Sebastian Bach
- I made a decision when I ran for president that I wouldn't whine about my coverage in the media, and I never… — Michele Bachmann
- I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are… — Michele Bachmann
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever… — Alec Baldwin