Ralph Bakshi Quotes

Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?

The BBC is very aware of its role in shaping people's consciousness… it's manipulative and deeply political.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

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.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

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

Give me the writing of a nation's advertising and propaganda, and I care not who governs its politics.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

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

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.

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.