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 XCinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
- Robert BressonAll media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values
- Marshall McLuhanFor a politician to complain about the press is like a ship`s captain complaining about the sea
- Enoch PowellThe media`s power is frail. Without the people`s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
- Corazon AquinoMedia: 99,99% of what happens is not on the news
- LoesjeThe media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
- Peter McWilliamsThe news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it`s not entirely the media`s fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
- Peter McWilliamsThe American people deserve to know that they`re not just watching the administration`s spin on their local newscasts -- they`re paying for it, too.
- Senator John KerryIt's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
- Senator John KerryAll 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.
- William Bernbach