Mass media

"Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?" Vladimir Lenin

"The tone is gently authoritarian, leaving no doubt that this is the way the world is and no other way [....]Proclaimers of unassailable truths [....] The broadcast gives the impression of a short devotional in a living room chapel." Hermann Rotermund

"I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I've also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don't want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire." Christine Prayon alias Birte Schneider

"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're in a post-truth world where you can't believe the media, you can't believe Big Pharma, you can't believe politicians, you can't believe what you're eating, you can't believe yourself. Since we've existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it's now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can't trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them," Robbie Williams

"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

"After 3 years of propaganda is apparent: - Covid was just flu - The mortality figures were fake - Masks were useless - Vaccination was useless and harmful - School closures were useless - The high priests of the Covid cult are corrupt profiteers What now?" Dr. Markus Krall

"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

"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