“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.” Quote by Ted Koppel
“Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.” StatesUnitedBreakUnited StatesMediaMachinesWingsRight WingImposingRadicalism Author:Paul Krugman
“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.” BigsMediaPressesPrivilegeComplicatedUrbanFree PressGreat Society Author:Walter Lippmann
“The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.” QualityDemocracyMediaJournalismEntwined Author:Bill Moyers
“An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.” PeopleMindKindMadeSpiritLyingDiesFightingAsksOpinionDemocracyMediaInformationPropagandaUnconsciousFedsBiasSkepticalJunkOrthodoxySkepticPartisansJunk FoodObese Book:Moyers on Democracy Source: Moyers on Democracy
“The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.” PeopleBelieveMediaBelieve In MeNew Media Author:George Orwell
“I can't tell you how many times we'll run into a journalist and go, "Boy that's...I wish we could be saying that. That's exactly the way we see it and that's exactly the way we'd like to be saying that." And I always think, "Well, why don't you?"” ThinkingWayWellsI CanTruthRunningWishBoysMediaJournalist Author:Jon Stewart
“The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.” IfsIdeasCountryMightIssuesMediaMythDebateBiasHumaneOpen MindedMedia BiasLiberal Media Author:Barbra Streisand
“I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.” PeopleThinkingWayIdeasRealCountryCasesMediaRangeBroadsDeceivedMarketplace Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel
“Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.” CommonDemocracyMediaCommunicationServingSecrecyAttackingCommon Good Author:Rowan Williams
“In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.” UnderstandingCommonMaterialsLosingStriveRealmsFurnitureGaudy Author:Olympia Brown