Edwin Lefevre 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.

No matter what was written or what was charged, the harmful effect was largely washed away as soon as the reassuring voice of the President of the United States started coming through the ether into the family living-room.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

The media is news gatherers. Why in the world are the media a factor?

If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

The media can make or break an administration.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.

When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

People see whatever the media first reports.

I know it's TV, but at the same time you don't foresee that so many people all over the world are going to see it, and have an opinion on it.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Despite romantic fantasies about caring candidates who learn of America in donut shops, most politicians rely on media to teach them what concerns the average person.

The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.

The so-called positive press has in some ways been more difficult to swallow than the negative.

The media is to blame for everything, for all the misconceptions about the movement, but in a sense it didn't really matter if they said something good or bad, because Krishna consciousness always seemed to transcend that barrier anyway. The fact that the media was letting people know about Krishna was good in itself.

Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.