Jello Biafra Quotes

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.

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

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

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

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

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.

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

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.

As far as the media is concerned, I wouldn't shoot anything down.

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.

You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

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.

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

Give people control of the media and they will use it. Don’t give them control and you will lose it.

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

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

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

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

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.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

The fact that there aren't more restrictions on the media is disgraceful.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.