Media Quotes

• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Life, Uprising, Mind

  "Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

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  If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Lying, People

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• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

  George Orwell

  Believe, People, Believe In Me

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• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technique, Use, Propaganda

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

  Danny Glover

  Military, Guy, Groups

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  The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Business, Book, Reading

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• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Politics, Anarchy, Dictator

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

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  The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Objectivity, United States

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  People, Germany, Want

  Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

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• Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

  Benjamin Carson

  Party, Responsibility, Political

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• Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.

  Marilyn Manson

  Change, Time, Society

  "47 years of Marilyn Manson: Has the society finally understood him?". www.radioandmusic.com. January 5, 2016.

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• The media can be a really strong vehicle.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Strong, Vehicle

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• All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

  William Bernbach

  Business, Use, Levels

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• The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy, Quality, Journalism

  "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.

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• To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

  Bernie Sanders

  Worry, Honest, Ownership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Money, America, Stories

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• Media, the plural of mediocrity.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Fun, Mediocrity

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• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  L. Neil Smith

  People, Looks, Mass

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• All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Perception, Arbitrary, Artificial

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

  Jay Baer

  Coal, Social, Canaries

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• Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Work Out, Citizens

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Squinting, Inability, Depth

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• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, United States, Might

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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