Dan Gilroy Quotes

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The journalistic traits that are valued on TV and radio talk shows are destructive to democracy.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

It is really the angling in the media that I do not like. That is how media can be rotten.

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.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

The media do strange things.

People see whatever the media first reports.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

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.

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

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

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

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.