1,406 Quotes About Media

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself."[Speech at CIA Headquarters, November 28, 1961]

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

Being an ignoramus is not enough to prevent one from being famous.

The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

They want you poor, so they can be rich.They want you weak, so they can be powerful.They want you dumb, so they can be smart.They want you guilty, so they can be innocent.You cannot realize it, but you’re nothing more than a slave.

I am not in the entertainment business. I don't give a damn if it was spectacular or not. I want cause and effect.

Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.

Pulling bad science apart is the best teaching gimmick I know for explaining how good science really works.