Thomas Sadoski Quotes

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

The news pages are now routinely the site of the rankest propaganda.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

The media loves negative spin.

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy

The expressions of newspapers, like those of orators, could not be accepted without allowance, for they aimed at producing some desired effect, and said either more or less than the truth.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

The media I’ve had a lot to do with is lazy. we fed them and they ate it everyday.

Propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle....the only effective weapon against propaganda on behalf of one policy seems to be propaganda on behalf of an alternative.

In politics there is a lot of spin—a lot of BS. My job is to cut through the BS.

The age of spin should be over.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

You give a press conference, and they'll pick one word, they'll pick two words. The media is still out to write what they want to write.

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.