Bernardine Dohrn Quotes

Television has the power to push for change. We need to push it in that direction.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

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Injecting new ideas into public debate is the supreme function of the newspaper columnist. Politicians and civil servants absolutely will not take the risk.

Television has shortened our political discourse.

Media creates awareness [and] ensures transparency and accountability.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

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

For me, the passions and issues I care so much about are ones that lend themselves to work whether you're in government or outside of government.

I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it.

Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media or whether the mass media is a tool for kids to use.

The media doesn't educate anyone.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

The public's not stupid.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

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.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.