Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

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.

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

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

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.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

The public are not stupid.

We buy into all kinds of lies that are sold to us from advertising to Fox news or from the Vatican to Goldman Sachs.

Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

It is so obvious that we are constantly monitored and manipulated both in advertising and in politics.

We have to challenge lies. We have to challenge falsehoods and conspiracy theories. If you don't, they fester - unchecked and unchallenged.

People stop believing what the media tells them when they see media superstars say things like, 'Let the economy fail.'

I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.