Quote by Gore Vidal on Controlling Public Opinion through Media Corporations

„When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.“

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Gore Vidal was an American writer, screenwriter, and intellectual known for his sharp style and political essays.

This quote by Gore Vidal addresses the power of media corporations over public opinion and influencing the masses.


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Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was a versatile American writer and intellectual who produced novels, essays, screenplays, and plays. He was known for his critical stance on American politics and society as well as his engagement in social and political debates.

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"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." Gore Vidal
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Quote by Gore Vidal on media control and opinion manipulation in the United StatesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"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
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Quote by José Luis Sampedro about media influence on public opinion and powerCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Public opinion is influenced by the media and the media are in the hands of those who rule and those who rule favor those who say what is convenient for them and erase everything that does not suit them. So public opinion is, above all, media opinion." José Luis Sampedro Sáez
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Quote by David McGowan on media mergers, corporate control, and authoritarian propagandaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"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
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