Quote by Gore Vidal: Criticism of US Rulers and Media Manipulation

"In a situation when you feel threatened there is less room to criticize the government because then you are immediately labeled a traitor. Like this is war now. We’re in a national emergency. We all have to unite around the government and anybody who opposes that or criticizes the government is a traitor. [...] this is why very often even in a situation when there is no real threat leaders are manufacturing artificial threats." Yuval Noah Harari

"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. Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions…" Gore Vidal