Anthony Fauci Quotes

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

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.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

The media do strange things.

People see whatever the media first reports.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

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

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

Media truly has the power to create and shift culture.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

It's the media who love statistics.

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

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 don't think about the media.

I think the media is a real demon.

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

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.

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.

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

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.