Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

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

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

The media can make or break an administration.

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

I'm the crazy one? This country has gone insane. Read about it. FCC orders NBC newsrooms to partner with Soros funded non-profits. That's how the deal went through.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

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.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.

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.

What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.

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

... infiltrate and neutralize the mainstream American media.

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

This is probably my last free statement through our news media, where the radio and television are already under the heel of the ruling political party of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. One would have thought radio and television were enough as propaganda tools.

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

The nation whose population depends on the explosively compressed headline service of television news can expect to be exploited by the demagogues and dictators who prey upon the semi-informed.

The state must not ... let itself be confused by the drivel about so-called "freedom of the press," ... it must make sure of this instrument of popular education, and place it in the service of the state.

Fox Televison News is reaching Third Reich standards of media coverage of world affairs.

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

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

In spite of your “liberty of the press”, at a hint from your government your whole national press becomes unanimous on questions outside domestic politics.