Marc Sapir Quotes

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.

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

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

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

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

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

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.

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

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

The media can make or break an administration.

The Arab Press is a deeply distorted lens.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

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

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

We are going to have to endure an imperial media with a government by public opinion poll.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

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

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, Donald Trump vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect.

I also believe that when something negative comes out about you in the media, that's only one person's opinion. These guys sometimes believe they've been ordained from on high to give the general opinion of the populace, and that just isn't the case.

I know politics; I know the media.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.