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The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five
companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
~ Ted Turner
We have to
do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We
need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
~
Ted Turner
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I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't
have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the
broad, real range of ideas.
-- Katrina
vanden Heuvel | 
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If we are to
have the public conversations essential to taking on serious dilemmas from climate
change to criminal justice reform, we need forums for those conversations. The
media can facilitate the conversations or shut them down. They can open up or
constrain our beliefs about what is possible, what is desirable, who is deserving,
and which perspectives are legitimate.
-- Sarah
van Gelder |
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
Serving
democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires
not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt
communication.
-- Rowan D. Williams
A
flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of
genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
-- Rowan D. Williams
I think that in the absence of a responsible national media, the blogs play an
important role in trying to shed light on various issues, including the bona fides
of so-called White House correspondents as well as tackling questions overlooked
or ignored by the national journalists.
-- Joe Wilson
| We need to decide
that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians
or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against
innocents, a war against children.
-- Howard
Zinn |  |
Free
Press / Media Reform Quotes
