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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. -- Ted Koppel
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. -- Jacques Ellul
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. -- Warren Beatty
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. -- Jacques Ellul
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. -- Christopher Lasch
It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. -- Christopher Lasch
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials. -- L. Neil Smith
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
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
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. -- Ernst Fischer
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. -- Camille Paglia
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -- Noam Chomsky
The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise. -- Roger Stone
The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. -- Akbar S. Ahmed
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. -- Siri Hustvedt
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic. -- bell hooks
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. -- Alex Steffen
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. -- Noam Chomsky
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
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. -- Ulrich Beck
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love. -- bell hooks
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
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking. -- Ray Bradbury
Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority. -- bell hooks
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level. -- William Bernbach
It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents. -- Nursultan Nazarbayev
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. -- Lester Bangs
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that -- Huey Newton
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. -- John le Carre
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. -- Alex Steffen
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power. -- Parker Palmer
To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often. -- Haki R. Madhubuti
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life. -- Andrew Weil
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions. -- C. Wright Mills
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. -- Edward R. Murrow
The mass media are class media. -- Michael Pare
This generation is burning the mass media to the ground. -- Julian Assange
Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes. -- Cameron Russell
Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids. -- Don Williams
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away. -- David Hockney
With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment. -- Robin McLeavy
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. -- Don DeLillo
Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle. -- Seth Godin
Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy. -- Vladimir Putin
[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media. -- Ralph Nader
Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values. -- Paul McGuire
Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry. -- David Riesman
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media. -- Alexei Shirov
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. -- Paul Goodman
Mass media over-represents persons of color in negative ways, especially as criminals, relative to the share of crime actually done by such persons. -- Tim Wise
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. -- James T. Farrell
The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers. -- Jerry Yang
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media. -- Paul Virilio
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment weâ??re born? -- Chuck Palahniuk
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. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view. -- Lucy R. Lippard
How I wish the mass media had christened me Joe instead of Joey. I hate Joey, not going to lie. Nobody I respect calls me it... -- Joey Barton
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them? -- Gunter Grass
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. -- Sam Smith
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
Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media. -- Ralph Nader
And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening. -- Sibel Edmonds
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
Taken as a whole the mass media seldom rises to the level of deplorable trash, but it is also true that there is no mass audience in America for anything better ... -- Nicholas von Hoffman
When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight. -- John Lahr
I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker. -- Joichi Ito
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably. -- Pauline Kael
The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it. -- Guy Burgess
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions. -- Noam Chomsky

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