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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. -- Arianna Huffington
Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today. -- Marco Rubio
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me. -- Curt Weldon
With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys. -- Curt Weldon
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. -- Thom Yorke
Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores. -- Aberjhani
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. -- Thom Yorke
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. -- Ben Shapiro
Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall. -- Douglas Rushkoff
The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections. -- Fred Barnes
Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job. -- Jesse Ventura
Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops. -- Joe Scarborough
I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias. -- Dick Cheney
The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes. -- Curt Weldon
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media. -- Kevin Rose
A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition. -- Howard Fineman
I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that? -- Sebastian Bach
I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period. -- Bobby Flay
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media. -- Bernard Goldberg
I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit. -- Sam Sheppard
We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone? -- Emilio Estevez
When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response. -- John Cusack
The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. -- Henry Giroux
I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election. -- Roseanne Barr
When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now -- Ed Harris
I feel like an ambassador for surfing at this point. I'm happy to go and play that role and share that where I can in certain areas of the mainstream media that doesn't get the surfing attention. -- Kelly Slater
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history. -- Edward Snowden
To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question. -- Al Franken
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. -- Lionel Barber
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say. -- Rachel Maddow
The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky. -- Jamie Glazov
The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that. -- Chris Robinson
Independent documentary isn't beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. It's a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach. -- Josh Fox
The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had. And as the disconnect grows and as more and more people distrust them, then the media digs in more and more and says you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know how we do our jobs, you don't know what's important. -- Rush Limbaugh
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it. -- James Cromwell
I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page. -- Al Franken
Mainstream media: 80% stuff someone told them. 10% stupidity. 10% arrogance. -- Seth Roberts
The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. -- Jon Stewart
I think the best person in Hillary Clinton's campaign is mainstream media. -- Donald Trump
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. -- Issa Rae
Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas. -- Janeane Garofalo
People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color. -- Issa Rae
The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks. -- Bruce Jackson
What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material. -- Jimmy Wales
Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them. -- Naomi Wolf
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us. -- Jesse Ventura
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media. -- Kevin Drum
Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here. -- Michelle Shocked
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. -- Robert McChesney
I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media. -- Joey Skaggs
I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it. -- Rush Limbaugh
The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today. -- Bill Moyers
The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community. -- Joseph L. Bast
I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media! -- Hannah Hart
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation. -- Aberjhani
Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points! -- Sean Hannity
You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked. -- Nick Denton
I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary Clinton. They believed Donald Trump was the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat. -- Ted Cruz
It's becoming obvious to most that mainstream media is nothing but a megaphone for the global elite to present biased news that's designed to align the masses with their agenda. -- James Morcan
Donald Trump's fought, quite frankly, the entire mainstream media, who is always, you know, who's always counted him out, never thought he could do this, who's always put him down. -- Eric Trump
Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this. -- Mohammad Marandi
While mainstream media is led by profit, ratings and popularist culture and filtered by the current political climate, Alternative Media is lead solely by the convictions of the campaign and film maker. -- Ben Edwards
WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Although it has been a carefully guarded secret by the watchdogs of the mainstream media, eugenics programs were never discontinued worldwide, with involuntary sterilization programs continuing in many countries to this day. -- Jim Keith
The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities. -- Andrew Breitbart
People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that. -- Marc Martel
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward. -- Issa Rae
Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life. -- Sean Hannity
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old, -- Robert Glasper
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old. -- Robert Glasper
It's been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else. -- Walter Kirn

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