Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

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 media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

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

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

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

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

Television has shortened our political discourse.

We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media

There is no weapon stronger than the press.

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

Public opinion wins war. I have always considered as quasi-staff officers, correspondents accredited to my headquarters.

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

In the old days, there were three networks, and all of a sudden, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted man in America. Everybody believes what he says, not even thinking. In those days, we didn't even know it was being spun. We were very willing to just listen to it and go along with.

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum.

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

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.