Quotes About Media

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.

I so often doubt how much people on television believe what they're saying. They're playing roles for think tanks or political parties or shills of whatever stripe.

There are people who appear on television who are paid for by shadowy think tanks whose financing they won't come clean about.

We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick. Until we see how unbalanced our culture has become at this point, we will not be able to deal with the mammon spirit within ourselves nor will we desire Christian simplicity.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Our country needs more tough critics like you who don't just swallow the hype like everyone else. So many writers might as well be on the payroll — be it entertainment industry or government.

I hate how the media tries to control our minds. It's a new form of very subtle fascism.

Lucie disappeared on Saturday, July 1, 2000, at the midpoint of the first year of the twenty-first century. It took a week for the news to reach the world at large. The first report appeared the following Sunday, July 9, when a British newspaper carried a short article about a missing tourist named "Lucy Blackman." There were more detailed stories the next day in the British and Japanese papers.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

There is a blackout in media coverage of issues concerning whales and dolphins in Japan, with the exception of the government's viewpoint. It is simply amazing how little good information (and how much bad information) the public in Japan gets about the worldwide controversy over whaling and dolphin killing, all because the media bows to the wishes of the Japan Fisheries Agency.

All television is children's television.

Richard Reeves

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Most people lie about small things but would be afraid to lie about big things. But manipulators know that if you insist on a lie long enough, many people will believe you — especially if you have the resources of mass media to air your lie. All skilled manipulators are focused on what you can get people to believe, not on what is true or false. They know that the human mind does not naturally seek the truth; it seeks comfort, security, personal confirmation and vested interest. In

Fallacies are "foul ways" to win arguments, yet they are winning arguments and manipulating people everyday. The mass media are filled with them. They are the bread and butter of mass political discourse, public relations, and advertising. We all at times fall prey to them. And many live and breathe them as if they were the vehicles of sacred truth. Your

For the next two years, journalists would dishonestly report that the U.S. president had called neo-Nazis 'fine people'.

the shelves on shelves of unread or half-read or read-and-forgotten books that had always been supposed to make such a difference and never had; the loathsome, gloating maw of the television set;

Camera goes direct to a camcorder with an LCD display.

You bet. Camera goes direct to a camcorder with an LCD display.

Anyway, how did I know the president was for real? I never saw him, just pictures in the paper and they can make those up. How do you know someone is real if you don't see him?

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah! -Harry Wormwood

Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.

The daily papers talk of everything except the daily," he complained. "What's really going on, what we're experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it?" That's his deeper question: What about everything else?