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“I dont talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.”
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
“When you turn on the news, it's the same old rich white people that have systematically ruined this country regurgitating the same tired, stale ideas. And they keep getting invited back.”
“The media's job is to serve as society's referee, throwing down truth flags when uninformed bigots are shouting their opinions into the wind.”
“A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren'...”
“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns given to economic subjects, or in the pages devot...”
“The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical the sense, partic...”
“By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you arent going somewhere, youre already there. On the telephone youre not going somewhere, youre ther...”
“Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.”
“He was looking for programs on which he might be allowed to appear. But it was too early in the evening for programs that allowed people with peculiar opinions to speak out. It was only a little af...”
“When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?”
“A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful of banks and investment companies who advertise on ...”
“All thought usually reached the public after thirty years in some such form: The man on the street heard the conclusions of some dead genius through someone else's clever paradoxes and didactic epi...”
“The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.”
“If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy!”
“Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their se...”
“Some readers were aware that the novels they loved amounted to a propaganda campaign, that the love stories had a particular agenda that might or might not have anything at all to do with reality. ...”
“When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?”
“In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.”
“Selling the presidency like cereal! How can you talk seriously about issues with half-minute spots?”
