Media Quotes

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Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business. — Matt Drudge
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… — Noam Chomsky
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… — Noam Chomsky
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the… — Noam Chomsky
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… — Noam Chomsky
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… — Noam Chomsky
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves. — Noam Chomsky
Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. — Mark McKinnon
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time. — Alexis Ohanian
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that… — Henry David Thoreau
Report me and my cause aright. — William Shakespeare
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week… — Karl Kraus
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have… — William Cobbett
Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose,… — William Hazlitt
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be… — James F. Cooper
Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes. — Jon Rappoport
No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they… — Paul Craig Roberts
The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy. — Lewis H. Lapham
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in authorized ideas and… — Robert Faurisson
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for… — Wystan Hugh Auden
By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of… — Ben Bagdikian
By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I… — Johnny Cash
Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public… — Albert Einstein
Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people… — George Carlin

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