Ken Stott Quotes

We live in an age that makes truth pass for treason.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.

I have come to the conclusion that the West is a vast lie machine for the secret agendas of vested interests.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

Money doesn't just buy a nice car; it also buys better education or healthcare. Increasingly, it can buy impunity from justice, a pliant media, favorable laws, business advantage, and even elections. This, in turn, perpetuates the policies that allow a tiny elite to accumulate ever more wealth at the expense of the majority.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

People have become so weary of all the government and media dishonesty, the all-too-commonplace lying, that most Americans have stopped listening.

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.

Don't believe the fake media.

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

Media is set up to give information to the people - at least that's what it says. But we all know in the U.S. that media is a capitalistic system, people are getting paid to write things, they have bosses and editors, and they have bosses, and they put pressure on people to write intriguing stories that catch the eye.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.