Tom Petty Quotes

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

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

I think the media is a real demon.

Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

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

I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.

I am not afraid of mass media.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

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 effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

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

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.