Mass media

"It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus." Nikola Tesla

"I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed." Neil Postman

"Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science." Aldous Huxley

"The announcement 'This is the First German Television with the Tagesschau' is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people." Volker Bräutigam

"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

"By now, the Bild newspaper is almost the official government paper." Heinrich Böll

"If it is not in the media... it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened." Charles T. Tart

"Another century of newspapers and all words will stink." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough." Alan Kay

"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots." Umberto Eco

""...a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion when the selection rules of the journalists who have been brought into line largely coincide. This creates a consonance of reporting that acts like a confirmation to the audience (everyone says it, so it has to be right) and installs a stereotype-supported pseudo-environment"" Walter Lippmann

"The leading media as well as the mass media are business models and serve no more to convey "truth" than the pharmaceutical industry serves to promote public health. Indoctrination is part of the essence of media." Prof. Rainer Mausfeld