Lynda Obst Quotes

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

The Freedom of Information Act isn’t used, for the most part, by the people. It’s used by Journalists … The information is not sought to bestow knowledge upon the people. It is used as a weapon.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

If information is gathered, history shows that it will be used at some time.

Journalist, in my opinion, are mediators between the Information Age and our democracy.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

The free flow of information is vital for economic development.

Owning media is power. That’s the way it is.

With the profusion of images and the Internet, you can get any truth you want.

Access to information is a fundamental human right.

When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.

Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world.