American Media Quotes

• 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

  Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.

  Michael Crichton

  Poor Quality, Doors, Media

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Believe, Government, Media

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• American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

  Shane Smith

  Media, Names, Radio

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  David Talbot

  Country, War, Media

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• I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

  Sharon Stone

  Media, Realizing, Truth Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism. Their efforts to create reality on the ground — instead of reporting on it — notwithstanding, here's what we know about the inchoate Egyptian uprising: the movement's members hated their ruler and did what was necessary to be rid of him.

  Ilana Mercer

  Reality, Media, Color

  "Media's sickening sentimentality on Egypt". www.wnd.com. February 17, 2011.

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• I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

  M.I.A.

  Media, People, Car

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

  Michael Moore

  Media, Want, Pumps

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• Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

  Jim Shepard

  Race, Media, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in order to get covered as a candidate in this election. It's pretty outrageous. And our media could solve that in a heartbeat if they actually opened it up, you know, but they don't. So I think that's more commentary on the crisis in our media.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Media, Order

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Writing, Media, Age

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so.

  John Sayles

  Media, People, Trying

  "Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.

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• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Badass, Agency, Views

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• Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

  Ron Dart

  Media, Cynical, Political

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• I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be - would love to see an expose like that.

  Michele Bachmann

  Thinking, Views, Media

  "Blunder May Cost Rep. Bachmann Minnesota Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

  Roseanne Barr

  Media, Order, Data

  "This Is Woman’s Time!" by Roseanne Barr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

  Conrad Black

  Israel, Media, Outlets

  "'Conrad Black: NY Times is 'anti-Israel'" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

  David Duke

  Government, Media, Ku Klux Klan

  "Duke Speaks Out". "The Crusader Newspaper", November 1978.

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• I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Views, Media

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

  Neil Young

  Media, Foxes

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• ...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Country, Media, Perhaps Love

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• Jennifer to Beth: Ech. I don't like Tom Cruise. Beth to Jennifer: Me neither. But I usually like Tom Cruise movies. Jennifer to Beth: Me too... Huh, maybe I do like Tom Cruise. But I hate feeling pressured to find him attractive. I don't. Beth to Jennifer: Nobody does. It's a lie perpetuated by the American media. Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts. Jennifer to Beth: Men don't like Julia Roberts? Beth to Jennifer: Nope. Her teeth scare them. Jennifer to Beth: Good to know.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

  George Will

  Love, Reality, Media

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Betrayal, Government, Media

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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