Meghan McCain Quotes

When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

NBC News will help define Comcast.

With the instrument of radio you can make public opinion. Perhaps even conquer a country.

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.

The Press has not only a great influence over our manners and morals, but contributes largely to our pleasures.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

Television has an unparalleled reach.

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

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

Then there is the newspaper press, that huge engine for making the political test final.

The Washington Post is the first and prime source of information for the national government.... It can come very close to setting the nation's agenda.

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.

My column showed you into office and my column can show you out again

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

In Russia, as well as everywhere else, the true and lasting power is that of public opinion, and of those who know how to influence it.

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

Television has supplanted people as the only audience that campaigners are interested in.

As long as public opinion influences politicians, those who can influence public opinion will have great political weight

You have the socialist parties ruling Denmark putting in conservative policies because the conservatives control the media and the public discourse.

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

Politics is power, and communications is power,

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.