Quotes About Media

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

The publicists are the gatekeepers, and they wield a lot of power. They're the ones giving you access to their clients.

If you own the only newspaper in town, up until the last five years or so, you have pricing power and you didn't have to go to the office.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

I want to have a great open relationship with our press.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.