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How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern th...

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I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news ... if y...

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The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it...

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Frank ZappaThe Real Frank Zappa Book

I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging ...

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Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds o...

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The schedules are crammed with shows urging us to travel further, drive faster, build bigger, buy mo...

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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you ...

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All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...

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The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which i...

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We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied t...

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Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online ...

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As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

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There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media ou...

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I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be...

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We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th...

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A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as ...

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I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

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Gregory BenfordFoundation's Fear

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legisla...

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A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effecti...

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But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical ef...

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American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless...

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The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soak...

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Haruki MurakamiUnderground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues ...

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Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, ar...

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Henry David ThoreauSlavery in Massachusetts

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the...

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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of gover...

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Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i...

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In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of ...

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Italo CalvinoSix Memos For The Next Millennium

Nowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the...

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The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more...

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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all...

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The propagandist naturally cannot reveal the true intentions of the principal for whom he acts... Th...

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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological s...

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As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...

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It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form,...

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Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terro...

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Jean BaudrillardSimulacra and Simulation

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ab...

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All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can ma...

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What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilat...

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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...

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Jean BaudrillardThe Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what ...

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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObsc...

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Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ...

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themsel...

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing ot...

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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of ...

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of...

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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive ...

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It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes hav...

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

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Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'offic...

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We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and ...

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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidd...

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The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, impr...

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When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness.

Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they...

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Jon StewartAmerica (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...

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At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media ...

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Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...

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The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest...

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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if y...

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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was p...

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Karl MarxMarx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2003. Die Deutsche Ideologie: Artikel

If “piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission- if “if value, then ...

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Lawrence LessigFree Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...

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Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social medi...

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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...

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

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Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absen...

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Manuel CastellsCommunication Power

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of t...

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I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...

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A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

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By the way, goals and objectives are meaningless at the speed of light. At the speed of light, you a...

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The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this n...

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The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise ...

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Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rat...

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by t...

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It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle a...

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All media work us over completely.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing af...

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Matt TaibbiGriftopia: Bubble Machines

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit...

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The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more...

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Matt TaibbiGriftopia: Bubble Machines

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard...

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Max BrooksWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on ...

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They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is anti...

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I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them...

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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the...

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Social media is reducing social barriers. It connects people on the strength of human values, not id...

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Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (...

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Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....

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Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?