John J. McLaughlin Quotes

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

Television has power.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

I'm psyched-up when I do radio. I can reach hundreds of thousands of people in a market. And way psyched-up when I'm on television. For people not to take it seriously is foolish.

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

The medium is the message.

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

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

I'm still excited at being at a microphone and talking to listeners. I love that. It's the most basic element of what I do and I still enjoy it very much.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

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

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

This [the advent of radio] was the first time in the history of mankind that people in different places heard the same thing at the same time.