Ilana Mercer Quotes

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

I don't think that Rush, Hannity, Drudge, Ann Coulter, Fox News, and AM Radio can create enough of a balance to undo the distorted media that we get from the Democrat Media Complex.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

You have people talk about the media as a coequal branch when talking about Republicans. "You know, Republicans have to overcome the media, and then the Democrats." Wait a minute. Why should anybody have to overcome the media?

The media is not going to change.

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.

The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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 run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

The media can make or break an administration.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.