Madonna Ciccone Quotes

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 ...

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

The photographer must bear the responsibility for his work and its effect …[for] photographic journalism, because of its tremendous audience reached by publications using it, has more influence on public thinking than any other branch of photography.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

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.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

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

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

You see, the power of television cannot be underestimated.

TV's a pretty powerful thing.

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.