Events Quote by Christopher Lasch Download Open image “The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.” — Christopher Lasch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Events News Propaganda Understood
Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news”… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they can no longer… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Newspaper photographs nowadays are highly tautologous. You'll have an article about, say, stopping the war. And the photograph that will be used is literally… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
Traditional news feels quite sanitised, quite statisticky. We're bombarded with images, but often, you don't see the human stories, or if you do, it's… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good life, perhaps… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The future and the past are equally meaningless because they are nebulous entities, times that do not exist, containing events which have no echo… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image