Being Quote by Margarita Simonyan

We had a general awareness, for example, of Russian use of social media - Facebook ads, use of Twitter, fake news implants - we…

— James R. Clapper

Maybe boutique media, maybe people who are reading papers and talking to academics and whatnot, maybe they understand, because they're high-information. But a lot…

— Edward Snowden

I don't think Americans realize the degree to which they are the main subject of Russian television news. Every night there's news from the…

— Anne Applebaum

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at…

— Yakov Smirnoff

In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to…

— Jaak Kilmi

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in…

— David Zaslav

The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the West took…

— Daniel Fried

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to…

— David Frum

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything…

— Rowan Atkinson

I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of Soviet society.

— Masha Gessen

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

— Paul Erdos