1,406 Quotes About Media

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),

Nationalist (forces around the world) could now more readily communicate and share their grievances, viewing themselves as similar groups, engaged in a common struggle for greater autonomy against control exerted from London or Paris.

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

And there’s just something about Asians — their faces, their skin color — it just automatically takes you out of this reality. Forces you to step back and say, Whoa, whoa, whoa, what is this? What kind of world are we in? And what are these Asians doing in our cop show?

In the American media, white people debate whether race matters, rich people debate whether poverty matters, and men debate whether gender matters. People for whom these problems must matter -- for they structure the limitations of their lives -- are locked out of the discussion.

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.