Mass media

"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

"The taste of the masses is characterized not by their antipathy to the excellent, but by the passivity with which they enjoy equally the good, the mediocre, and the bad. The masses do not have bad taste. They simply do not have taste." Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose." Joseph Goebbels

"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up." George Carlin

"People are not made dumb by any medium. They are only confirmed in their stupidity." Gabriel Laub

"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda." Hannah Arendt

"The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play." Oswald Spengler

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." Gore Vidal

"When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please." Gore Vidal

"There are so many negative things out there on television and movies right now. Even the daily news, it gets depressing." Kevin Sorbo

"There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get." Kevin Sorbo