Ben Edwards Quotes

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it.

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

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

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.

Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.

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.

Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

I'm so tired of this argument that all we ever do is under Kremlin orders and so and so forth. Tell me, how is it possible? I am not on the air. If you watch RT, you will see that all of our shows are hosted by people to whom it would be impossible to tell them anything.

Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America.

I have opened newspapers and read incredible lies.

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.

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