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The Value of Mass Media
1. "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
2. "All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level." William Bernbach
3. "The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it." Sam Smith
4. "We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books." Don DeLillo
5. "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
6. "Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?" Chuck Palahniuk
7. "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
8. "Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use." Linda Ellerbee
9. "Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society." Jacques Ellul
10. "The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction." Christopher Lasch
11. "This generation is burning the mass media to the ground." Julian Assange
12. "It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale." Jacques Ellul
13. "Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away." David Hockney
14. "If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour." Daniel Pinchbeck
15. "Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society." Nicolas Winding Refn
16. "I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists." Michael Crichton
17. "The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes." William Bernbach
18. "Because of a mass media more interested in gossip and sensationalism than real issues, I would say a vast majority of the American public doesn't have a clue about how the Congress functions and what goes on." Bernie Sanders
19. "It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media." Christopher Lasch
20. "People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials." L. Neil Smith
21. "The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination." Akbar S. Ahmed
22. "It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents." Nursultan Nazarbayev
23. "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
24. "There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media." Alva Myrdal
25. "Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that" Huey Newton
26. The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise. Roger Stone
27. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. Jacques Ellul
28. There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. Noam Chomsky
29. I am not afraid of mass media. Alexander Lukashenko
30. Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes. Cameron Russell
31. Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all. Kevin Hassett
32. American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. Siri Hustvedt
33. With today's mass media obsession, it's good to be able to raise awareness about our environment. Robin McLeavy
34. Before the term 'viral video' came out, we used the mass media to our advantage. David Droga
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