-
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. -
Marshall Mcluhan
|
-
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. -
Oscar Wilde
|
-
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. -
Walter Lippmann
|
-
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision. -
Walter Lippmann
|
-
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. -
Christopher Lasch
|
-
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. -
Spiro T Agnew
|
-
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. -
John F Kennedy
|
|
|
-
On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! -
John Greenleaf Whittier
|
-
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. -
Barbara Walters
|
-
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent. -
Gore Vidal
|
-
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. -
Mark Twain
|
-
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. -
Henry David Thoreau
|
-
The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom. -
Oswald Spengler
|
|
|
-
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium -- that is, of any extension of ourselves -- result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. -
Marshall Mcluhan
|
-
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. -
Theodore Roosevelt
|
-
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions. -
C Wright Mills
|
-
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. -
Margaret Mead
|
-
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities -- life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked. -
Patrick Kavanagh
|