Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

The media is comparable to government--probably passes government in raw power

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

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.

Then there is the newspaper press, that huge engine for making the political test final.

The Washington Post is the first and prime source of information for the national government.... It can come very close to setting the nation's agenda.

The press has, at present, a great influence over public questions; and by far the greater and more influential part of it is engaged on the side of the capitalist.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

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

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

I want you to know that I'm not only in charge of the newspaper but every piece of news that goes out, and I don't like these gun laws, and I don't want you to vote for them.

There may be some who wish that he would have taken the occasion to first comment on the Brexit vote, but they're not going to abandon him. They're not gonna let the media do it. Romney people? The media could separate his supporters from him, but they can't from Trump. They don't understand this yet. They think one of these times when they do a trick like this it's gonna work and they're gonna be able to really harm [Donald] Trump.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.

I think it's a scary sign of the times that pop culture and social media is so involved [in presidential election ], where it feels like a reality show. I have hope that the right decision will be made.

The media is in charge of what you think. They're in charge of what you know and don't know. And any challenge to that, like alternative media or a president with direct access to the audience and doesn't need them, is a threat.

The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.

With the media, we don't know what's true, and we don't have radical transparency because we're seeing everything through somebody else's eyes. There's no other industry that has as much power and as much freedom and as little quality control. I can't imagine how anyone could not think that's a problem.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.