Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

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

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

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

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

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

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

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

The media is so powerful.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

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.

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

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.