Joey Skaggs Quotes

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

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

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 ...

Do you know we are ruled by T.V.?

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

All media work us over completely.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

I think the media is a real demon.