Peter Phillips on Media Manipulation: How US Media Serves Corporate Interests
“… the media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and … the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources.”
Peter Phillips
Mark Twain Quotes on War, Lies, and Humanity’s Self-Deception Revealed
“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
Mark Twain
Al Franken on Hidden Media Biases – What You Really Need to Know!
“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
Al Franken
Malcolm X Quote on Media Power – Understanding Control Over the Masses
“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
Jim Morrison Quotes: Whoever Controls the Media Controls Your Mind!
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind, the medium is the message and the message is me”
Jim Morrison
Joseph Goebbels on the Power of the Press – The Quote Explaining Media Control
“Imagine the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Joseph Goebbels
The Secret Principle of Propaganda – Powerful Words by Joseph Goebbels
“That is the secret of propaganda: to completely saturate the person targeted by it with the ideas of propaganda without them even realizing they are being saturated.”
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels Quote: The Secret of Successful Propaganda Revealed!
“The most brilliant propaganda technique will have no success if a basic principle is not constantly observed – it must be limited to a few points and repeated over and over again.”
Joseph Goebbels
Neil Postman on the Truth of Television – Revealing Media Critique!
“Television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation… Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.”
Neil Postman
David Barsamian Quotes: Revealing How Media Disempower Us – The Truth About Control and Consumption
“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