William Maxwell Aitkin Quotes

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

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.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

Media is totally Modi, Modi-media.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

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

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

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

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

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.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

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.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

Trump's Fox News fixation was a major theme of his presidency. He hired people from Fox, fired people because of Fox, and gave most of his national TV interviews to Fox. Sometimes it was hard to tell where Trump ended and Fox began.

I really am convinced that what is happening in media today is the result of the birth of conservative media and its rapid growth and ascension. It has destroyed the left's monopoly in media. When they had the monopoly, they could pretend that they were not what they are and get away with it. They could pretend to be objective. You know, the power of a monopoly is not just determining what stories you are going to cover, but what you don't cover is just as powerful.

I don't think the media is a reflection of anything. The media is an active political and pedagogical force that shapes reality. If the media were a reflection of anything, then we'd have to raise the question of why it's in the hands of basically six corporations. The media is about power.

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.

The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.