Media Power Quotes

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

To say that the newspaper press represents public opinion is to administer insult to intelligent men. It is the property of speculators, political leaders, large contractors and railway directors.

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

No one today in Washington doubts the superior firepower of the media over that of the executive branch.

The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him.

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

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Trump base is solid, and there's nothing the media can do to break it. There's not a single thing they can do. They are never gonna give that up, either. They are doing everything they can to split up Trump supporters from Trump. Only Trump can do that. The media didn't make Trump and, as I repeatedly say, they can't bust him.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Journalism is now not only reflecting what is happening, it is affecting what is happening. Governments all over the world watch CNN.

The media is in charge of what you think. They're in charge of what you know and don't know. And any challenge to that, like alternative media or a president with direct access to the audience and doesn't need them, is a threat.

Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Anybody can reach anywhere from five to 15 million people weekly making a president look like an idiot, as I did back then, or Tina Fey did with Sarah Palin... You're always preaching to the choir one way or the other.

I have tried to write about this matter without any improper bias, but of course we are all cowards about newspapers who tyrannize over us all.

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

Many newspapers have become players as well as spectators in the political debate.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

I really am convinced that what is happening in media today is the result of the birth of conservative media and its rapid growth and ascension. It has destroyed the left's monopoly in media. When they had the monopoly, they could pretend that they were not what they are and get away with it. They could pretend to be objective. You know, the power of a monopoly is not just determining what stories you are going to cover, but what you don't cover is just as powerful.

The force of the newspaper is the greatest force in civilization.... [Newspapers] declare wars ... make and unmake statesmen.