Mass media

"You can tell a good journalist by the fact that he doesn't get mean about a cause, even a good cause." Hanns Joachim Friedrichs

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest" Prof. Stephen Schneider

"The announcement 'This is the First German Television with the Tagesschau' is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people." Volker Bräutigam

"I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda." Edward Bernays

"It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man." Edward Bernays

"There are always events that are played up in the media and lead to more and more people subscribing to the opinion given from the outside. This in turn leads them to build up beliefs that become a thought prison. If one is stuck in such a politically or medially predetermined thought prison, one begins to identify with it and hardly finds a way out. You have to look for a loophole to break out of this thought prison." Dr. Jörn Berninger

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion." Winston Churchill

"Sure, the media don't depict reality, they create it! And that's why we need counter-publicity!" Niklas Luhmann

"The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb." Paul Felix Lazarsfeld

"If you turn off the news and talk to your neighbors, you'll find that our country is far more harmonious than you're being told" Rob Schneider

"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know." Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely unacceptable socially. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unkind to them as the law will just allow. They are bad people who do wrong." Max Goldt

"He who tells the stories rules the society." Platon

"If it is not in the media... it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened." Charles T. Tart