Quotes about media

"Of all the dramatic media, radio is the most visual."

Reeves, John on media   

"The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck."

Roosevelt, Theodore on media   

"Report me and my cause aright."

Shakespeare, William on media   

"If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life."

Sharpton, Rev. Al on media   

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on media
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"The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom."

Spengler, Oswald on media   

"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."

Thoreau, Henry David on media   

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"There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here."

Twain, Mark on media   

"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."

Vidal, Gore on media
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"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."

Walters, Barbara on media   

"On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!"

Whittier, John Greenleaf on media   

"In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press."

Wilde, Oscar on media   

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"It's like a play we're watching "

Dye, James on media