Media Reform Quotes

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“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

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
-- Malcolm X

“All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values”
-- Marshall McLuhan quotes

“The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.”
-- Peter McWilliams

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to. -- Michael Moore

The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. -- Bill Moyers An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too. -- Bill Moyers

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 people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
-- George Orwell

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
-- Joseph Pulitzer

"The best antidote to political attacks is to demonstrate our commitment to journalism, to public broadcasting and to democratic values."
-- Raul Ramirez

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
-- Eric Sevareid

"The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered."
-- Joey Skaggs

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. -- George Bernard Shaw

"The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty." -- Adlai Stevenson

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country. -- Barbra Streisand

Media Reform Quotes

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Media Reform Day - October 18