Masha Gessen Quotes

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.

There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

The media is really failing the American people.

Bloomberg's money and media access are a serious danger to American liberty and we must take him head on.

Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.

We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

Media is totally Modi, Modi-media.

As a media consultant to Republican presidents, Ailes proved a deft manipulator of racial fear. But it was in building Fox News that he found his calling.

To be sure, every White House tries to limit its exposure to difficult and distracting questions. The Obama administration was scrutinized for its use of late night shows and YouTube chats to get the president's message across in low-risk situations.

What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

Trump is somebody who sees the media as basically his main constituency. So much of his self-worth and his image and his view of what the presidency should be about is the media and how he is reflected in the media.

Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.