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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• Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

  Peter Gabriel

  Eye, Responsibility, Voice

  "Peter Gabriel supporting Amnesty during South America tour". Press Release, www.amnesty.org.uk. November 16, 2011.

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• Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

  Ryan Holiday

  Thinking, Ideas, Growth

  Ryan Holiday (2013). “Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (APenguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.11, Penguin

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• Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Paper, Levels

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

  Erik Qualman

  Water, Pushing, Balloons

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• The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

  Christopher Lasch

  Believe, Addiction, Belief

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.521, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Truth Is, Being True

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• The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Mind, Moral

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.324, Cambridge University Press

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• It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a life of solitude and loyalty and commitment to my work. I just don't prioritize my life in the same way that other people do. The only thing that matters is my music and my performance.

  Lady Gaga

  Loyalty, Blessed, Commitment

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• You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Art, Rap, Insightful

  Song: You're Nobody, Album: Life After Death

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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

  Independent, Healthy, Democracy

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• The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

  Joey Skaggs

  Messages, Massage

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• Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Night, Thinking, People

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• The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

  George Orwell

  Believe, People, Believe In Me

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• Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Liberty, Losing

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Communication works for those who work at it.

  John Powell

  Work, Communication, Effectiveness

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

  Enoch Powell

  Humble, Sea, Complaining

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• Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

  Sam Smith

  Taught Us, Democracy, Tests

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• The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Ideas, Lists, Ridiculous

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• It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

  Chaka Khan

  Speaks Out, Careers, Voice

  "Chaka Khan records song for Trayvon Martin" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Democracy, Politics

  "On Propaganda". WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.

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• 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

  Powerful, Understanding, Becoming

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Expression, Creating

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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

  Jobs, Government, Aquariums

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