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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

— Tammy Bruce

“media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth, and that they do not merely reflect the world as powerful groups wish…

— Noam Chomsky

“At the deepest level, the media contribute to the sense that the government is the enemy, and they suppress the sources of real power…

— Noam Chomsky

“When the media gets involved, in the United States, that’s a war you’ve got a damned good chance of losing, because the restrictions on…

— Marcus Luttrell

The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

— Pat Mitchell

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

— Julian Assange

“Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.”

— Lance Morcan

The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the…

— Hugo Chavez

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

— Joey Skaggs

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often…

— Carl Bernstein

“the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.”

— Manuel Castells

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