Julian Assange Quotes

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

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

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

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

The media is not going to change.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions.

The media—stenographers to power.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

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.

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

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

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

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.