Quotes About Media

Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda.

no matter how objectionable the character of a paper may be, it is always a trifle better than the patrons on whom it relies for its support.

Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them.

The truth is that while it appears to be forming the public opinion on fundamental matters, the press is often conforming to it.

Give the people what they want" is only half sound. What they want and what they get are fused by some mysterious alchemy. The press, the lecturer, the screen and the public lead and are led by each other.

To a large degree the press, the schools, the churches, motion pictures, advertising, the lecture platform and radio all conform to the demands of the public. But to an equally large degree the public responds to the influence of these very same mediums of communication.

Orwell's fear was that Big Brother would always be watching you. Huxley's dread was that we would be too busy watching Big Brother on TV to care. There is no need to ban books if people are not reading them. If the people are entertained, they will also be docile.

Unless we get off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

Some argue that the Internet and the new communications technologies are breaking the corporate stranglehold on journalism and opening an unprecedented era of interactive democratic media.

The anti-Communist control mechanism reaches through the system to exercise a profound influence on the mass media. In normal times as well as in periods of Red scares, issues tend to be framed in terms of a dichotomized world of Communist and anti-Communist powers, with gains and losses allocated to contesting sides, and rooting for "our side" considered an entirely legitimate news practice.

the institutional bias of the private mass media "does not merely protect the corporate system. It robs the public of a chance to understand the real world.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

A State that faces, as the utmost and severe danger from its ignorance, injustice, favourable tendency, transgression, specific sympathies, and conscienceless media; conversely, as such dangerous risk even from an enemy is impossible.

Attempt to weaken the media, the pillar of transparent democracy in whatever description is disloyalty to the State and Nation that can open the route of conspiracies.

Follow others on Social Media honestly; they will follow you back precisely and accordingly.

For example, I don't have a license to drive; thus, my driver drives; however, I sit next to the driving seat, watching all the surroundings during the journey. Similarly, I am on Social Media with admins.

Journalists voluntarily fight for human rights and freedom of speech; whereas, they stay silent, for their rights and journalistic freedom, on the will and restrictions of the boss of media. Indeed, it verifies that: The nearer the church, the farther from god.

Media cannot be a football ground nor a tool for anyone. It penetrates the elementary pillar of a state; it forms and represents the language of entire humanity within its perception of love, peace, respect, justice, harmony, and human rights far from enmity and distinctions. Accordingly, it demonstrates its credibility and neutrality.

Media cannot be a football ground, nor the tool for anyone. It penetrates the elementary pillar of a state; it forms and represents the language of entire humanity, within its perception of love, peace, respect, justice, harmony, and human rights, far from enmity, and distinctions. Accordingly, it demonstrates its credibility and neutrality.