Paul Virilio Quotes

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

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

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

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

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

A good war televises well; a bad war televises poorly.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

We are going to have to endure an imperial media with a government by public opinion poll.

If you believe that this war will be decided on the home front, then you must believe that radio used as an instrument of war is one of the most powerful weapons a nation possesses.

The media is so powerful.

I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

The media is either our salvation or our death.