Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

The rythms of typing favour short, concise sentences, sentences with oral form.

Marshall McLuhan

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

Marshall McLuhan

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Marshall McLuhan

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Marshall McLuhan

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the massage. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

Paul Goodman

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony.

Pat Buchanan

If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

Joseph Pulitzer

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Joseph Sobran

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.

Neil Young

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

Rachel Maddow

The more you push back on Donald [Trump], whether you`re in the media or whether you are in the GOP establishment, the stronger his base of support comes.

Noam Chomsky

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Noam Chomsky

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Noam Chomsky

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Noam Chomsky

He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

Noam Chomsky

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

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

Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

Noam Chomsky

... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

Noam Chomsky

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Noam Chomsky

The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.

Joe Scarborough

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.

Pat Robertson

Homosexuals are riding high in the media.

Mary Schapiro

The SEC has actually progressively loosened up the rules and recognized the value of social media, but the goal is always going to be to get information out as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.

Mary Ritter Beard

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

Nick Offerman

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

Matt Drudge

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Matt Drudge

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

Matt Drudge

There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day,

Mark Twain

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

Oscar Wilde

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.