Shaun King Quotes

General David Petraeus was so successful at getting on covers of magazines, having journalists fall in love with him, that in fact he was able to use that power to go around the normal chain of command.

The media would love to be able to ignore Donald Trump, but they don't dare. He draws too big a crowd. They've done everything they can that they usually do when they try to take a candidate out, or anybody else they want to take out. None of it works.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

We studied Western journalists' reporting methods, fed them story ideas, steered them toward sympathetic interviewees, and supplied them with the revolutionary movement's facts and figures.

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 set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

Everyone in politics turns to the press, if only to manipulate it or deflect it.

Seward must be got out of the cabinet. He is Lincoln's evil genius. He has been President de Facto, and has kept a sponge saturated with chloroform to Uncle Abe's nose.

In the struggle for power, propaganda is an instrument to be used by those who want to secure or retain power just as much as it is by those wanting to displace them.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The 1934 Republican response to the Upton Sinclair campaign for California Governor marked a stunning advance in the art of public relations, in which advertising men now believed they could sell or destroy political candidates as they sold one brand of soap and defamed its competitor. In another twenty years, these techniques would spread East, achieve a new refinement, and begin to dominate the politics of the nation.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Every successful president has suffered imputations that he has in sinister fashion charmed the press or used a new medium of communication (radio, television, the Internet) to claim an undeserved standing.

Facts are a thing of the past. Americans may find it impossible to debate politics clearly because of a lack of agreement on basic matters of fact: that was certainly the case in this yea'rs Presidential election [2016]. And no one has taken more advantage of this than Donal;d Trump ... Trump and his talking heads didn't create this world. It is the result of decadews-long stategy devised devised by a numbe of public affairs practitioners who recognized that lies were the most potent weapoin in the fight against progress,

Politics is power, and communications is power,

The abundant paradox of the disreputable Mr. Trump is the way he entices so many others to shred their own reputations. His political existence is practically built on the willingness of the media to rise mechanically, predictably to the bait every time.

The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

I'd rather have the media as my friends than making use of them for my own benefit.

Let's face it - Donald Trump is a very, very good con man.