Jackson Browne Quotes

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

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

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

If the American President had control of the media, his job would be much easier.

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

As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

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.

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

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the American people.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

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.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

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

I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

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.

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.

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.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.