The
reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but
in the press and the schools”
-- John
Dewey |  |
The
press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest
that man can enjoy."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
 |
I certainly think we have
an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.
-- Phil
Donahue I
realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes
to that.
-- Phil Donahue
|
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
 | Nothing
can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what
is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes
its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the
positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses
to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there’s a clear trend
these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater
concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.
-- Eduardo
Galeano |
| The media is supposed
to be custodians of the facts and watchdogs of government. They have, for the
most part, neglected to be either of those things.
-- Janeane
Garofalo the
handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in
reflecting establishment views.
-- Janeane
Garofalo The
right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
-- Janeane
Garofalo |
|
"Whoever
controls the media--the images--controls the culture."
-- Allen Ginsberg
| 
| “Today,
the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The
big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good
guy is and who the bad guy is...
-- Danny
Glover |
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Independent
media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the
corporate networks refuse to do.
-- Amy
Goodman *
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 |
Journalism
is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because
journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed
to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone.
That's what the corporate media have become.
-- Amy
Goodman
 |
American foreign
policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this
is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the
owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White
House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in]
the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the
story.
-- Denis Halliday Much
of the big media outlets in North America are owned by arms manufacturers, like
Westinghouse, or G.E. [General Electric]. That’s unacceptable. So we’re not getting
editorial policy, we’re not getting a vision of truth. People just don’t know
what is going on anymore, and that’s really dangerous stuff.
-- Denis Halliday |
| Mainstream media
tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter
of right and left.
-- Arianna
Huffington |
|
It
is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much
public opinion influences the media.
-- Bruce Jackson
