Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

History must only guess at the effect that television would have had during earlier conflicts over the future of the nation.

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 ...

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.

Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

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

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

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

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

That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Now everybody has to work together. They are the fourth estate. Incredibly powerful.