Agendas, Agenda Setting Quotes

The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

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

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras....

I keep telling people that the secret of their success is discovered in their daily agenda. What they do daily is going to determine their success.

Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

I blame al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

We never discuss race until something bad happens.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

I view the traditional two parties as in some ways very evil. They've become monsters that are out of control. The two parties don't have in mind what's best for Minnesota. The only things that are important to them are their own agendas and their pork. Government's become just a battle of power between the two parties.

Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

People see whatever the media first reports.

The Washington Post is the first and prime source of information for the national government.... It can come very close to setting the nation's agenda.

We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.

A few people with a clear agenda can make a big difference in government.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.