News Coverage Quotes



Stalin was very astute in realizing the power of the press and the modern media. As a result, his solution was to not only develop a strong party media apparatus, but deny any contrary groups the fight to press and media. He was so effective at media control that most dictators and theocrats would thereafter model the Russian system of monopoly control over the media.


The President was with the way the press had handled some press releases from the White House and wanted to give the press less information.


Republican Congressmen Mark Foley had been forced to resign for inappropriate sexual advances to Congressional pages and the party leadership had allowed the story to be covered up. The story was the largest issue covered by the media almost to the exclusion of all other stories including the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.