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“The U.S. media do not function in the manner of the propaganda system of a totalitarian state. Rather, they permit indeed encourage spirited debate,…

— Noam Chomsky

“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic…

— Henry Jenkins

In our society, I see public media as a lever. It pushes people by elevating them and their sights. It brings them into more…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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 democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

— Kevin Rose

I don't believe that there's such a thing as objectivity in much of journalism, but I think there is a serious effort to and…

— Jann Wenner

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before

— Dahr Jamail

Our mass media have little difficulty in selling particular interests as those of all sensible men. The political needs of society become individual needs…

— Herbert Marcuse

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be…

— Walter Cronkite

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

The media has a tendency of manipulating things to show in their favor.

— Angela Stanton-King

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty.…

— Susan Sontag