Hafez Al-Mirazi Quotes

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

What we watch on television, we approve.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

I respect the press. The press and the media are a very useful watchdog to check the power of the government.

It’s always a danger when an institution like the press becomes disconnected from the people.

The media can make or break an administration.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

The media have entered government as a revolutionary force.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.