18 Interesting Quotes About The Media You Hate
1. “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” — Malcolm X
2. “The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination,’ we might say – exercised through the mass media.” — Noam Chomsky
3. “We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.” — Don DeLillo
4. “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” — W. H. Auden
5. “Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?” — Chuck Palahniuk
6. America’s mainstream media is not your friend; it only likes popularity and extraordinary events. If you don’t believe this, then do something that attracts its attention. — John Sudds
7. “The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.” — Christopher Lasch
8. Following its 20th century birth, the lack of any formidable regulation, and its arbitrary investigative powers, America’s mainstream media has evolved into one of the biggest threats to civil liberties of our time, that of the year of our Lord. — John Sudds
9. “It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.” — Jacques Ellul
10. “Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn’t have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on.” — Bernie Sanders
11. “The world has progressed to the point where it’s most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion…We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.” — William Bernbach
12. “The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.” — Akbar S. Ahmed
13. “If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.” — Daniel Pinchbeck
14. “People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.” — L. Neil Smith
15. “There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.” — Alva Myrdal
16. “People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.” — Ted Koppel
17. “I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. … It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.” — Michael Crichton
18. “Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.” — Paul McGuire
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