Paddy Chayefsky Quotes

I think the media is a real demon.

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

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

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

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

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

The media are the opposition party.

I am not afraid of mass media.

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.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

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

Television has shortened our political discourse.

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.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

The media have disproportionate control of the information in our society.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

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

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.