Quotes About Media

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.

The media never covers all the evil wars that's promoted.

The story belonged to Christine Jorgensen, the first sex-change celebrity.

We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.

If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were meant to revile. We regret to report that nearly all of these women were African American and were disproportionately featured as failed mothers in news stories about "crack babies," single, teen mothers, and welfare mothers.

If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

What is most disturbing, apart from the fact that millions of Americans already believe in the imminent end of days, is that the mainstream media confer respectability on such bizarre fantasies by taking them seriously.

Beginning with the radio evangelist Billy Sunday in the twenties, American fundamentalists, with their black-and-white view of every issue, have made effective use of each new medium of mass communication. Liberal religion, with its many shades of gray and determination to make room for secular knowledge in the house of faith, does not lend itself as readily to media packaging and is at an even greater disadvantage in the visual media than it was on the radio.