Donald Trump Quotes

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

The freedom of the press throughout the world where the capitalists rule, is the freedom to buy up papers, the freedom to buy writers, to buy and manufacture public opinion in the interest of the capitalists.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

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

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

Media is set up to give information to the people - at least that's what it says. But we all know in the U.S. that media is a capitalistic system, people are getting paid to write things, they have bosses and editors, and they have bosses, and they put pressure on people to write intriguing stories that catch the eye.

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

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

The media is not about the arena of ideas. The media is not about persuading. The media is about overcoming the will of the people. The media has joined forces with the Democrat Party, members of the Democrat Party, and the extreme radical left in the United States to advance the extreme radical leftist agenda.

The media—stenographers to power.

When you said the media, the liberals are just being good bots and just doing what they're told.

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

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.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.