Rob Lowe Quotes

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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

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

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and upset, because even in the Republican establishment, the media is looked at as a legitimate player in the power arrangement of politics.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

The media can make or break an administration.

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.

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

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

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

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

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

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

What scares me most about the media is that so many of them don't realize that by presenting and highlighting certain issues, opinions, and perspectives over others, they can manipulate and control people's beliefs in subtle ways.