Herbert Hoover Quotes

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

I have so much to thank reality TV for.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

I couldn't imagine life without Radio 4.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.