Sydney Schanberg Quotes

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

I think the media is a real demon.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

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.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

The media is comparable to government--probably passes government in raw power

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

I am not afraid of mass media.

The media is so powerful.

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

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

I know politics; I know the media.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I don't watch the media that much.

I don't think about the media.

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.