Robert McChesney Quotes

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

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

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.

For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.

Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.

In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left.

The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.

I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.

I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative.

I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

Even if everything its detractors say about Fox were true, the most liberal of liberal attitudes would be that one would get credit for being in the lion's den.

I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.

The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

Whoever said I hated the media?

Political culture has become popular culture.

Perceptions are essential in politics.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.