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The
media has become a major influence in shaping the
world. Many are concerned that fewer and fewer corporations
are controlling the vast majority of our media.
Help promote a free world press, media reform and
support alternative media sources.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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The
American mass media have achieved what American political
might could not: World domination.
-- Akbar S. Ahmed
“The
media's power is frail. Without the people's support,
it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.”
-- Corazon Aquino
What
the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment
which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,
and replaced by a new dish."
-- W. H. Auden
The
safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership.
But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government...
-- Ben Bagdikian
“All
of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers
of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize
it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”
-- William Bernbach
"I
think that we have created a new kind of person in a way.
We have created a child who will be so exposed to the
media that he will be lost to his parents by the time
he is 12."
-- David Bowie
Voice
leads to empowerment. Empowerment leads to full humanity.
Many faith groups have a trust relationship within their
own community. ... Justice is part of our core mission.
So media justice is part of what it means to advocate
for a just society.
-- Rev. Robert Chase
Any
dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience
of the U.S. media.
-- Noam
Chomsky
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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
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All
over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda
system, there is constant pressure to make people feel
that they are helpless, that the only role they can have
is to ratify decisions and to consume.
--
Noam
Chomsky
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“The
script for this film was written 52 years ago by
Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons
about responsibility and always, always questioned
authority, because without it authority often goes
unchecked.”
-- George
Clooney
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“Here's
how it works: the president makes decisions. He's
the decider. The press secretary announces those
decisions, and you people of the press type those
decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put
'em through a spell check and go home.”
-- Stephen
Colbert
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By
any international standard, the practices of these governments
are unacceptable...We call on the leaders of these most
censored countries to join the free world by abandoning
these restrictive actions and allowing journalists to
independently report the news and inform their citizens."
-- Ann Cooper
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I
think it is absolutely essential in a democracy
to have competition in the media, a lot of competition,
and we seem to be moving away from that.
-- Walter
Cronkite
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When
“news stories” are broken, do we not expect a certain
amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One
has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy
reporting or deception as a source of spin. We seem
to accept a certain amount of deception and we seem
to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated
so clearly by where we are right now in this moment
in our history.
-- Sheryl
Crow
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The
reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only
the army and police, but in the press and the schools”
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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
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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
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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
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...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.
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The
media is supposed to be custodians of the facts
and watchdogs of government. They have, for the
most part, neglected to be either of those things.
-- Janeane
Garofalo
the
handful of corporations that own most of the media
outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment
views.
-- Janeane
Garofalo
The
right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace
movement.
-- Janeane
Garofalo
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"Whoever
controls the media--the images--controls the culture."
-- Allen Ginsberg
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“Today,
the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute
to military dictatorship. The big economic groups
are using the media and decide who can speak, who
the good guy is and who the bad guy is...
-- Danny
Glover
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Independent
media can go to where the silence is and break the
sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks
refuse to do.
-- Amy
Goodman
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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
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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
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American
foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority
of American people. And that this is due to a media
that in this country is suppressed by Washington
and by the owners of this media, who often tend
to be corporate entities close to the [White House]
and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested
interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a
result Americans do not actually get both sides
of the story.
-- Denis
Halliday
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Much
of the big media outlets in North America are owned
by arms manufacturers, like Westinghouse, or G.E.
[General Electric]. That’s unacceptable. So we’re
not getting editorial policy, we’re not getting
a vision of truth. People just don’t know what is
going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff.
-- Denis
Halliday
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Mainstream
media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom,
to see everything through the filter of right and
left.
-- Arianna
Huffington
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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
It
is not at all clear how much the media influences public
opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.
-- Bruce Jackson
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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.
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Since
an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy
democracy, independent, non-corporate media are
more crucial today than ever before
-- Dahr
Jamail
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No
government ought to be without censors; and where
the press is free no one ever will.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
“The
press is the best instrument for enlightening the
mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral
and social being”
~ Thomas
Jefferson
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Our
liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and
that cannot be limited without being lost.
~ Thomas
Jefferson
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"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
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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
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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
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“To
the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the
world is indebted for all the triumphs which have
been gained by reason and humanity over error and
oppression”
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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
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Media
is the nervous system of our culture.
-- Gary
Malkin
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“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
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By
the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's
media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs
told them to.
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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
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“I
believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between
journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell
them what we can about how the world really works.”
-- Bill
Moyers
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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
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"The
people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
-- George Orwell
Once
you inject fear into a society of people, they become
more and more afraid because they don’t cross over
the neighbourhoods and the only information they get
about other people is through the media.
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"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."
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“If
in other lands the press and books and literature
of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts
here to keep them free”
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"Americans'
right to free speech should not be proportionate
to their bank accounts."
~ Sen.
Bernie Sanders
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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
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Newspapers
are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a
bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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"The
free press is the mother of all our liberties and
of our progress under liberty."
-- Adlai
Stevenson
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I
can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist
and go, "Boy that's…I wish we could be saying that.
That's exactly the way we see it and that's exactly
the way we'd like to be saying that." And I always
think, "Well, why don't you?"
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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
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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
We
have to do more than keep media giants from growing
larger; they're already too big. We need a new set
of rules that will break these huge companies to
pieces.
~ Ted
Turner
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I
think people are too often misinformed and, in some
cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace
of ideas in this country that in any way reflects
the broad, real range of ideas.
-- Katrina
vanden Heuvel
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If
we are to have the public conversations essential
to taking on serious dilemmas from climate change
to criminal justice reform, we need forums for those
conversations. The media can facilitate the conversations
or shut them down. They can open up or constrain
our beliefs about what is possible, what is desirable,
who is deserving, and which perspectives are legitimate.
-- Sarah
van Gelder
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The
corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one
of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country
has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media
all objectivity - much less dissent.
-- Gore Vidal
Serving
democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media,
something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies
in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.
-- Rowan D. Williams
A
flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component
in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument
about common good.
-- Rowan D. Williams
I think that in the absence of a responsible national
media, the blogs play an important role in trying to shed
light on various issues, including the bona fides of so-called
White House correspondents as well as tackling questions
overlooked or ignored by the national journalists.
-- Joe Wilson
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We
need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever
reason is conjured up by the politicians or the
media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate,
a war against innocents, a war against children.
-- Howard
Zinn
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