Margarita Simonyan Quotes

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

The world is such a big place, and there's so much that goes on, but a lot of the media really just cover the same thing over and over again.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

The freedom of the press throughout the world where the capitalists rule, is the freedom to buy up papers, the freedom to buy writers, to buy and manufacture public opinion in the interest of the capitalists.

The media is really failing the American people.

Mainstream media is the enemy... but now it's time to act on the enemy before they do a false flag.

I have never seen anyone at CNN ever say, 'Boy, here's how we're going to deal with this today to put this guy down and elevate this guy up.' I've never seen it.

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

Frankly, many Fox shows are running away from the news rather than reporting on it.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

The media is controlled.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyelids of the average Brit - I skimmed through a copy recently and couldn't believe the rubbish in it.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

The vast bulk of Murdoch's news output, including the huge majority of any falsehood and distortion, is simply the spontaneous product of his highly commercialised newsrooms. It sells.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.