Ideological Framing Quotes

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

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

The secret to modern propaganda is to simplify and repeat.

One has to watch the new words that are introduced into politics—you never know what you are admitting to.

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

Dominant narrative is so overwhelming in politics. The smallest gaffe when the momentum is against you is a disaster. But when it is with you, everyone just ignores it.

The nature of politics is to subtract meaning from language.

Political writings are often over-exaggerated polemics bearing the imprint of the period and the place in which written.

Propaganda today relies for the most part on repetition of catchwords that leaders wish listeners to accept on their face value without critical scrutiny, suppression of information that debates those catchwords, and rationalization of their cause to foment passions in the interest of the state or party.

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

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

What you see on TV is what you believe you can be.

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

Newt Gingrich developed a whole vocabulary of polarization in order to get Republican candidates elected.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Visual images [in TV political advertising] have the capacity of disassociating themselves from their source.

Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'