Albert Einstein Quotes

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

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.

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

At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they're going to say.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

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.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

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

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

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

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Acting upon everybody for 30 minutes in 24 hours, the press is asked to create a mystical force called Public Opinion that will take up the slack in public institutions. The press has often mistakenly pretended that it could do just that.

The press has, at present, a great influence over public questions; and by far the greater and more influential part of it is engaged on the side of the capitalist.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

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

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.