Media Reform Quotes

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

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today. -- Bianca Jagger

Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before -- Dahr Jamail

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ~ Thomas Jefferson

"If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found -- including recourse to opportune legislative measures -- to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured."
-- Pope John Paul II

There cannot be forgotten the great possibilities of mass media in promoting dialogue, becoming vehicles for reciprocal knowledge, of solidarity and of peace. They become a powerful resource for good if used to foster understanding between peoples, a destructive 'weapon' if used to foster injustice and conflicts."
-- Pope John Paul II

It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.”-- John Kerry

“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”
-- Ted Koppel

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.
-- Paul Krugman

People everywhere confuse
What they read in newspapers with news.
-- A.J. Liebling

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society."
-- Walter Lippman

 

Media Reform Quotes

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MEDIA REFORM
HERO PIX

Amy Goodman | Ted Turner | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Media Reform Day - October 18