Media Control 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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• He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Mind

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  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

  Hate, Lying, Media

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• Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Media, People, Germany

  Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.

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• There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

  Mark Twain

  Law, People, Speech

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.726, Library of America

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• The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Truth, Yield, History

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• Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Peace, War, Thinking

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

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• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Life, Media, Uprising

  "Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

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• The press is our chief ideological weapon.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Weapons, Call Of Duty, Chiefs

  Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1964). “The great mission of literature and art”

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• The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Intelligent, Nwo

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Media, Art And Culture, Literature

  "Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills". Book by Karl Albrecht, p. 6, 1979.

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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

  Country, Objectivity, Media

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Hate, People

  Malcolm X's speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem (December 13, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (p. 93), 1965.

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• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  A. J. Liebling

  Funny, Politics, Civil Rights

  New Yorker, 14 May 1960

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• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  Edith Sitwell

  Truth, Believe, Long

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.3, A&C Black

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• A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  People, Cynical, Produce

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Mean, Media

  "Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian". Book by David Barsamian, chomsky.info. 1992.

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• The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

  Chris Hedges

  Passion, Telling The Truth, Authority

  Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian (2013). “Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians”, p.18, Nation Books

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• To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sound, Principles, Done

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.274, Cambridge University Press

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• If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

  Bill Moyers

  Equality, Thinking, Issues

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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

  Money, Media, America

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Media, America

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

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• Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense - the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.

  William Borah

  Independent, Government, Differences

  William Edgar Borah (1936). “Bedrock: Views on Basic National Problems”

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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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Book, Land, Effort

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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