Appeals Quote by Herbert Marcuse

“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not. They tend…

— Chris Hedges

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or…

— William Bernbach

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind…

— James L. Buckley

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or…

— William Bernbach

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

— Joey Skaggs

“For all its faults, our political process is a good one, and the means by which much meaningful change is made. That is not…

— Alastair Campbell

Media generally likes to generalise things, as it makes their life easy.

— Urmila Matondkar

What the media is playing is what people want is really a false idea. Capitalism and people who control the market have a large…

— Boots Riley

There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They…

— Pope John Paul II

So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless…

— Tony Blair

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

— Jacques Ellul

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

— Robert Kane Pappas