Lennox Lewis Quotes

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.

The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.

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.

President Reagan brought us to the ultimate: America As Total Television. During his governance the printed word simply ceased to matter. White House dynamos had once telephoned newspapers to complain about unfair reporting. Not anymore. Now they telephoned network bosses. Even then it wasn't poor reporting they complained about, but poor pictures.

A lot of people don't really understand boxing.

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.

Because I don't go to showbiz parties, I don't have the right image. The media decides who's in and who's out.

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

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

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.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't like Robbie Williams but he is presented to the public in such a way that they have no choice.

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

I'm very excited to fight for the first time in the United States and on HBO.

A lot of people assumed for all those years that I was the official announcer for HBO because I had done almost all their fights. I worked on all of them independently.

Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot.

By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'

We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

I really am convinced that what is happening in media today is the result of the birth of conservative media and its rapid growth and ascension. It has destroyed the left's monopoly in media. When they had the monopoly, they could pretend that they were not what they are and get away with it. They could pretend to be objective. You know, the power of a monopoly is not just determining what stories you are going to cover, but what you don't cover is just as powerful.

It is the media that controls the boundaries of what is politically permissible, so better to change the media. Profit motives work against it, but if we can have the audience understand that most other forms of journalism are not credible, then it may be a forced move.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.