Media Control Quotes - Page 2

• To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands.

  Eric Alterman

  Government, Interesting, Promise

  Eric Alterman (1998). “Who Speaks for America?: Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy”, p.155, Cornell University Press

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• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

  A. J. Liebling

  Freedom, Views, Liberty

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• The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Public Opinion, Littles

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• The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

  Richard Schickel

  Lying, Exercise, Media

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