Maxime Kovalevsky Quotes

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

Acting upon everybody for 30 minutes in 24 hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions. The press has often mistakenly pretended that it could do just that.

The media can make or break an administration.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

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.

Because I live and work in Washington, D.C., I have a ringside seat at the world capital of The Persuasive Arts, or, as I like to call it, The Opinions Racket.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

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

As long as public opinion influences politicians, those who can influence public opinion will have great political weight

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'

The media do strange things.

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

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

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

The world is governed by opinion.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.