Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

The secret to modern propaganda is to simplify and repeat.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked.

The public are not stupid.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

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.

We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.