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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 media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy. -- Ted Turner
Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. -- Joichi Ito
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled. -- Bruce Jackson
It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions. -- Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media. -- Tony Campolo
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. -- Eric Alterman
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
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
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways. -- Erin Gray
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
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. -- Thom Yorke
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
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. -- Jerry Brown
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. -- Jonathan Sacks
The Western media tends to place a lot of emphasis on official institutions in Ukraine such as its supreme court, the central election commission, and the parliament. In reality, the people of Ukraine now control their destiny. -- Bob Schaffer
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Presidential primary debates are an important part of our political process. But the media has wrested complete control from the parties and candidates over everything, including the number, the format, the qualifications, and the moderators. And they've become a circus. -- Mark McKinnon
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard. -- Steven Levitt
The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites. -- Evgeny Morozov
I can't control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media] -- Germany Kent
I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it. -- Kevin Durant
Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit. -- Andrew Flintoff
I think it's actually harder to watch the meet from the media section. You have no control there. -- Dominique Dawes
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that. -- Michael Moore
The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly. -- Tony Benn
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
Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation. -- Joe Kraus
But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control. -- Robert Waterman McChesney
People in my industry [PR] would like people to believe we have ways to control social media. But that's one of the great swindles. -- Eric Dezenhall
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
Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to. -- Jim Stengel
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged. -- David Puttnam

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