F. Sionil Jose Quotes

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

I think the media is a real demon.

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

The media's intentional corruption of the truth is an abomination and NRA members will never - and I mean never - submit or surrender to the national media!

I am not afraid of mass media.

The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.

I used to believe that we could change the media. I was as naive as anybody.

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

The media is not going to change.

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power.

The people are doing everything they can to stop Democrats! The problem is, the media is running the opposition, not the Democrats. You want to stop this? Stop the media. How do you stop the media? Turn 'em off, don't believe 'em, don't let 'em affect what you think and do. Beyond that, get creative.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

I don't watch the media that much.

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.

Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.