Sam Smith Quotes

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

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

We are going to have to endure an imperial media with a government by public opinion poll.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

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

The media can make or break an administration.

Contrary to right-wing mythology, the press was not an institution dominated by leftists but a creature of the very richest of the rich and mightiest of the mighty in American society.... While the press shaped mass opinion, it reflected elite opinion.

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.

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

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

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

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.

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.

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.

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

The media is so powerful.

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 media—stenographers to power.

The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.