Communication Quote by John Pilger

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and…

— Jacques Ellul

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because…

— Jacques Ellul

“What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not…

— Neil Postman

“The defining characteristic of today's intellectual and media elite is that it swims merrily in a sea of fantasy. The world of television is…

— Richard M. Nixon

For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.

— Bob Tyrrell

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

— Jeff Noon

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer,…

— Jeff Grubb

TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

— Bennett Cerf

“Since the early days of studying propaganda used during World War II, psychology research has demonstrated that the more a message is repeated, the…

— David DiSalvo

We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible. Along with the computer,…

— Herman Melville

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda,…

— Joseph Goebbels

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality.

— Randal Marlin