Robert Alexis McClure Quotes

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

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

The secret to modern propaganda is to simplify and repeat.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

There has never been an atrocity or a genocide without propaganda behind it.

Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.

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

Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources.

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

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.

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.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

We told members of the board of broadcast governors that we didn't think it was appropriate for the Voice of America to be broadcasting the voice of the Taliban into Afghanistan and we didn't think it was consistent with their charter... Its charter says that they should explain US government policy and present responsible discussion about it. We don't consider Mullah Omar to be responsible discussion.

The strategies and assumptions [of the propaganda model] are fundamentally contrary to a democratic model.... The goal of the propaganda model is simply to achieve efficient indoctrination, and it therefore tends to regard the assumptions of the democratic model as inconvenient obstacles to efficient communication.

If people really knew, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know. The correspondents don't write and the censorship wouldn't pass the truth. What they do send is not the war, but just a pretty picture of the war with everybody doing gallant deeds. The thing is horrible and beyond human nature to bear and I feel I can't go on with this bloody business.