Donald Trump Quotes

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The media can make or break an administration.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

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

One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.

Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.

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 media can't take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

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

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

Contrary to right-wing mythology, the press was not an institution dominated by leftists but a creature of the very richest of the rich and mightiest of the mighty in American society.... While the press shaped mass opinion, it reflected elite opinion.

Politicians generally don’t volunteer for press encounters they can’t control.

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.

Politics is television and whoever masters it is likely to win.

In Russia, as well as everywhere else, the true and lasting power is that of public opinion, and of those who know how to influence it.

If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.