David Barsamian Quotes: Revealing How Media Disempower Us – The Truth About Control and Consumption
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"One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change."
David Barsamian
E. P. Thompson on the Danger of Half-Truths – Revelations That Will Change Your Thinking!
"The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defence correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons"
E. P. Thompson
Noam Chomsky on Media, State Power, and Disinformation – Revealed!
"The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you’ve got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus."
Noam Chomsky
Hannah Arendt Quotes: The Shocking Psychology Behind Mass Propaganda Revealed!
"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."
Hannah Arendt
Mark Twain’s Brilliant Warning: Why You Should Fear the Media More Than the Enemy
"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
Mark Twain
Mark Crispin Miller on Media Manipulation: Why Finding the Truth Is Harder Than Ever!
"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
Mark Crispin Miller
Nikita Khrushchev Quote: Why the Press Is the Ultimate Ideological Weapon!
"The press is our chief ideological weapon"
Nikita Khrushchev
David McGowan on Media Concentration and Authoritarian Propaganda – Shocking Revelations!
"Following the same course that virtually every other major industry has in the last two decades, a relentless series of mergers and corporate takeovers has consolidated control of the media into the hands of a few corporate behemoths. The result has been that an increasingly authoritarian agenda has been sold to the American people by a massive, multi-tentacled media machine that has become, for all intents and purposes, a propaganda organ of the state."
David McGowan
Nikolaus Blome on Social Disadvantages for Vaccine Refusers – A Provocative Plea
"I, on the other hand, would explicitly call for social disadvantages at this point for all those who voluntarily forego vaccination. May the entire republic point the finger at them."
Nikolaus Blome
Joseph Pulitzer Quotes: The Power of the Press and Its Impact on the People
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself."
Joseph Pulitzer
William Shakespeare Quotes: The Dangerous Legacy of Mad Leadership
"This is the plague of our time: the mad lead the blind."
William Shakespeare
W. Lance Bennett Quotes: How Controlled News Shapes Political Power
"Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution."
W. Lance Bennett
David McGowan Quote: Why You Should Trust Your Perception Over Authority!
"What if your eyes and your ability to think critically and independently tell you that all information from the institutions of the state is a lie? What do you do then? Do you trust your own cognitive abilities or blindly follow authority pretending everything can be somehow explained? If your worldview cannot explain what you see with your own eyes, then the problem is probably with your worldview. So, do you change this view or deny it?"
David McGowan
George Seldes Quote on Free Press – The Truth About Political Control of the Media
"The commercial press, in another of its brazen hypocritical proclamations, points with pride to the fact that it is free because it upholds a free system in which there are two political parties. But there is probably not one member of the A.N.P.A. [American Newspaper Publishers Association] who does not know that the Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and that the same persons frequently subscribe funds to both major parties … They know this very well, and they also know very well that the press has never given honest news coverage to the formation, platform and campaign of any third party which was independent enough not to feed on the same money. George Seldes, 1943"
George Seldes
Samuel Morse Quote on Jesuits: Revealing the Mysterious Power of the Jesuits
"They are Jesuits. This society of men, after exerting their tyranny for upwards of two hundred years, at length became so formidable to the world, threatening the entire subversion of all social order, that even the Pope, whose devoted subjects they are, and must be, by the vow of their society, was compelled to dissolve them. They had not been suppressed, however, for fifty years, before the waning influence of Popery and Despotism required their useful labors, to resist the light of Democratic liberty, and the Pope (Pius VII), simultaneously with the formation of the Holy Alliance, revived the order of the Jesuits in all their ‘power. From their vow of ‘unqualified submission to the Sovereign Pontiff,” they have been appropriately called the Pope’s Body Guard.
“And do Americans need to be told what Jesuits are? . . . they are a secret society, a sort of Masonic order, with superadded features of revolting odiousness, and a thousand times more dangerous. They are not merely priests, or of one religious creed; they are merchants, and lawyers, and editors, and men of any profession, having no outward badge, (in this country) by which to be recognized; they are about in all your society.
“They can assume any character, that of angels of light, or ministers of darkness to accomplish their one great end, the service upon which they are sent, whatever that service may be. They are all educated men, prepared and sworn to start at any moment, and in any direction, and for any service, commanded by the general of their order, bound to no family, community, or country, by the ordinary ties which bind men; and sold for life to the cause of the Roman Pontiff.”"
Samuel Morse