Thom Yorke Quotes

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

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

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

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.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

I think the media is a real demon.

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 notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

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

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

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups...So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

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