C. S. Lewis Quotes

Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

The strategies and assumptions [of the propaganda model] are fundamentally contrary to a democratic model.... The goal of the propaganda model is simply to achieve efficient indoctrination, and it therefore tends to regard the assumptions of the democratic model as inconvenient obstacles to efficient communication.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick.

The masses are absolutely being manipulated by those in power.

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.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

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

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

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

Politics won't allow for the truth.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.

The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.

Let's talk about real fake news. If this were about a religion or if this were about a Muslim ban, then how come the largest Muslim nation on the planet...Indonesia, exactly, isn't listed?

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.