Tessa Thompson Quotes

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

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.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

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

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

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

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

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

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

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

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

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

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

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

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

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

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

Hollywood pushes a liberal agenda to the rest of the country. And, whether we like it or not, Hollywood dictates the culture of the country.

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.

The media do strange things.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.