Media Reform Quotes

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The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it. -- Phil Donahue I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that. -- Phil Donahue

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
-- Al Franken

Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups. -- Eduardo Galeano

The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement. -- Janeane Garofalo

"Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture."
-- Allen Ginsberg

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do. -- Amy Goodman The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. -- Amy Goodman

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.
-- Amy Goodman

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. -- Arianna Huffington

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
-- Bruce Jackson

Media Reform Quotes

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MEDIA REFORM
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Amy Goodman | Ted Turner | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Media Reform Day - October 18