Mass media

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

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society." Walter Lippmann

"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

"If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media." Bryan Adams

"USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It's genius. It's like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through." Gore Vidal

"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

"A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person." Tom Felton