Quotes About Media

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Half-baked truth is dangerous - be it the propaganda of media or somebody else.

We're not going to allow the briefing room to be a platform for propaganda.

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

It's easy to complain about the obvious reality that our political media are completely corrupted and engage in propaganda, not journalism. But as they are the largest, most powerful, and least accountable political advocacy group in the country, Americans also need to do more than complain as the press harms the country.

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

Russia has always been involved in propaganda and disinformation.

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

When America's Newspaper of Record is nothing but a propaganda ministry, what is America?

There's a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.

A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

My experience investigating foreign propaganda operations predated the proliferation of social media platforms.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.

The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function properly if you live in an irrational fear.

Impressionable audiences should be seeing characters that are properly fleshed out.

The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.

News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair.

I cannot lie: as good as it feels to get my deserved props, the best part of reading social media after I meet folks is reading, 'Mike was a nice guy.'