Quotes About Media

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

There's a reason there aren't any fifty-five-year-old terrorists, or at least there weren't until they all started watching Fox News. Destroying things is for the young.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

On the other hand, I'm part of a movement which has a very, very ambitious goal of slowing down ... the American empire and keeping it from continuing to do the many terrible things it does all over the world. We have to reach the American public, and to do that we have to have access to the mass media.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

They already know. We announced it." Okay, you told them, but it didn't sink in. Threatening information is absorbed remarkably slowly. Say it again. And find different ways to say it and different media (large meetings, one-on-ones, email, a story on the company website, Tweets) in which to say it.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.