Mass Communication Quotes

• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, Moving Forward, Language

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• Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Communication, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore (1967). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Gingko Pr Inc

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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

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Business

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• The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

  Marya Mannes

  Communication, People, Political

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

  John Warnock

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

  Walt Disney

  Communication, World, Limitless

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• Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

  Frederic Raphael

  Communication, Ethics, Arguing

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• The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control.

  Shimon Peres

  Communication, Space, Internet

  "We in Israel welcome the Arab spring" by Shimon Peres, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Christian, Communication, Development

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1985). “How In This World Can I Be Holy?”, p.46, Moody Publishers

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• Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

  Eugenio Montale

  Communication, Reflection, Solitude

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• Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was sufficient. And then, with the introduction of printing and mass communication, suddenly somebody had a lot of authority invested in the idea of a single canonical expression of a document or a piece of communication.

  Khoi Vinh

  Strong, Communication, Expression

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

  Jimmy Page

  Music Is, Let Me, Has Beens

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• Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

  Alan Kay

  Communication, Television, Warning

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• I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

  Frank Ocean

  Communication, Writing, Form

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.178, Penguin UK

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• In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.

  Stanley Donwood

  Fall, Communication, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Philosophy, Communication

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by helping to maintain the freedom of the mass media themselves. The free society is one where advertising and advertising agencies are likely to be in considerable demand, though it is true that even in a totally centralist society there would still be a need for organisations and people to have access to mass communication media.

  John Treasure

  Business, Communication, Agency

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• Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

  Rollo May

  Country, Communication, Views

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• As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Culture, Inferiority

  Margaret Halsey (1964). “The Corrupted Giant: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals”

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• This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Communication, Media

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

  Jimmy Page

  Communication, Kids, Thinking

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• Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

  Scott McCloud

  Communication, Voice, Today

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• I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they haven't been. As with any kind of freedom, the more of it that one has the greater the need for limit and restraint. But I think that it's a nice challenge to be saddled with.

  Pico Iyer

  Nice, Communication, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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