Bruce Jackson Quotes

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.

People see whatever the media first reports.

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 media can be a really strong vehicle.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

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.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

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

I think the media is a real demon.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

The media do strange things.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

I don't think about the media.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

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.