Mass media

"The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you’ve got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus." Noam Chomsky

"Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse." Mark Twain

"The press is our chief ideological weapon" Nikita Khrushchev

"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

"In just two sentences, Orwell reveals the institutional structure of the media. He asks: Why is there such censorship? It is partly because the press is owned by wealthy people who want only certain topics to reach the public. And secondly, Orwell says, everyone who goes through the elite education system, attending the "right" schools, learns that there are certain things you must not say and certain thoughts you must not think. This is the role elite institutions play in socialization. Those who do not conform are usually expelled. These two sentences basically say it all." George Orwell

"Politicians and journalists. These are both categories of people to be approached with the utmost caution: for both range from near-statesmen to near-criminals. And the average remains average." Helmut Schmidt

"There is less and less free journalism and information. It is only about spreading propaganda that serves an elite" Novak Djokovic

"Wir leben in einem Zeitalter der Massenverblödung, besonders der medialen Massenverblödung.[....] Wenn Sie sich einmal anschauen, wie einseitig die hiesigen Medien, von TAZ bis Welt, über die Ereignisse in der Ukraine berichten, dann kann man wirklich von einer Desinformation im großen Stil berichten, flankiert von den technischen Möglichkeiten des digitalen Zeitalters, dann kann man nur feststellen, die Globalisierung hat in der Medienwelt zu einer betrüblichen Provinzialisierung geführt." Peter Scholl-Latour

"Television, the most powerful means of human interaction, is today in the hands of those utterly irresponsible regarding their role in society." Sergei Petrowitsch Kapiza

"Soon the public will be unable to argue or think for themselves. They will only be able to parrot the information they received in last night's news." Zbigniew Brzezinski

"The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about." Walter Lippmann

"Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching." Neil Postman

". . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world." Neil Postman

"It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions." Neil Postman