Bryant H. McGill Quotes

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

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

Proprietary programming like news can be a great weapon.

The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

The media—stenographers to power.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

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

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

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.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

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.