The American
mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.
-- Akbar S. Ahmed
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media has become a major influence in shaping the world. Many are concerned that
fewer and fewer corporations are controlling the vast majority of our media. Help
promote a free world press, media reform and support alternative media sources.
-- Robert Alan
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“The
media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with
the ease of turning a light switch.”
-- Corazon Aquino
What
the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended
to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish."
-- W. H.
Auden
The
safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal
has been sacrificed by our government...
-- Ben Bagdikian
“All
of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can
vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher
level.”
-- William Bernbach
"I
think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child
who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the
time he is 12."
-- David Bowie
Voice
leads to empowerment. Empowerment leads to full humanity. Many faith groups have
a trust relationship within their own community. ... Justice is part of our core
mission. So media justice is part of what it means to advocate for a just society.
-- Rev. Robert Chase
Any
dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
--
Noam Chomsky *
The
United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the
system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through
the mass media.
-- Noam
Chomsky | 
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All
over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant
pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can
have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
--
Noam Chomsky
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“The
script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught
us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority,
because without it authority often goes unchecked.”
-- George Clooney |
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“Here's
how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary
announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down.
Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home.”
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Stephen Colbert |
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By
any international standard, the practices of these governments are unacceptable...We
call on the leaders of these most censored countries to join the free world by
abandoning these restrictive actions and allowing journalists to independently
report the news and inform their citizens."
-- Ann Cooper
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I
think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media,
a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
-- Walter
Cronkite |
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When
“news stories” are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking
or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the guise of sloppy reporting
or deception as a source of spin. We seem to accept a certain amount of deception
and we seem to be helpless to doing anything about it, as illustrated so clearly
by where we are right now in this moment in our history.
-- Sheryl Crow
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