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• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Rowan Williams

  Maintenance, Common, Argument

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  Ulrich Beck

  Military, Law, Risk

  "Risky business". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.

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• If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Morning, New York, Military

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• Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement.

  Jessica Valenti

  Smart, Men, Games

  Jessica Valenti (2014). “Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters”, p.106, Seal Press

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• Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Money, Stories

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• Now, the political class tries to make sense of all of this, but they can't, because never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today.

  Marco Rubio

  Class, People, Political

  Speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  College, Enemy, Red

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• Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

  Britney Spears

  Matter, No Matter What, Christina

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• Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Athlete, Gps

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• Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

  C. Wright Mills

  Technology, Fiction, Machines

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

  Lisa Bonet

  Powerful, Writing, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Social media is an ingredient, not an entree.

  Jay Baer

  Ingredients, Social, Entrees

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• Social media is about people, not logos.

  Jay Baer

  People, Logos, Social

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, White, People

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• I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

  David Bowie

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

  George Clooney

  Responsibility, Years, Taught Us

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• The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

  John Dewey

  School, Army, Police

  John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.294, SIU Press

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• It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

  Stephen Dorff

  Tvs, Film, Used

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• With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

  Curt Weldon

  New York, Cnn, Dumb

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• There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.

  Preston Manning

  School, Personality, United States

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• So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

  Thom Yorke

  Artist, Power, Thinking

  "Thom Yorke an Howard Zinn debate the artist’s role in saving the world". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• Much of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That's unacceptable. So we're not getting editorial policy, we're not getting a vision of truth. People just don't know what is going on anymore, and that's really dangerous stuff.

  Denis Halliday

  America, People, Vision

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• Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Years, Differences

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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• The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

  Barbra Streisand

  Country, Ideas, Issues

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• Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

  Amy Goodman

  Power, Government, Accountability

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