Mass media

"The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want." Richard Warren Schickel

"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." A. J. Liebling

"The "Western media" is the head of a talking snake." James Morcan

"Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations." George Orwell

"Language makes infinite use of finite media." Wilhelm von Humboldt

"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." George Orwell

"People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience." Neil Postman

"For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada." Neil Postman

"A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass." A. J. Liebling

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." A. J. Liebling

"The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed." Edward Bernays

"When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision." Neil Postman

"Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since." Neil Postman

"The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation." Walter Lippmann