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“The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion.”

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“In politics not only are leaders lacking, but the independence of spirit and the sense of justice of the citizen have to a great extent declined. The democratic, parliamentarian regime, which is based on such independence, has in many places been shaken, dictatorships have sprung up and are tolerated, because men’s sense of the dignity and the rights of the individual is no longer strong enough. In two weeks the sheep-like masses can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that the men are prepared to put on uniform and kill and be killed, for the sake of the worthless aims of a few interested parties.”

War Politics Democracy Propaganda Dictatorship The Media

Book:The World As I See It

Source: The World As I See It

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”

Television Radio Newspapers Advertising Journalism Experts Interviews Content Passivity Tv Prediction The Media Forecast

Book:N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“One of the cardinal rules of journalism: Once you have cabled a story you must stick by it and back it up, unless something completely overwhelming proves you to have been wrong. In such a case, just drop the matter.”

Newspapers Journalism Propaganda The Media The Press

Book:Fiasco in Ethiopia

Source: Fiasco in Ethiopia

“The media is socially liberal, economically conservative, and always pro-war.”

War The Media

Author:James Rozoff

“When attempting to turn things around for a particularly disliked or controversial client, Sitrick was fond of saying, "We need to find a lead steer!" The media, like any group of animals, gallops in a herd. It takes just one steer to start a stampede.”

Media Public Relations Pr The Media

Book:Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

Source: Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.”

Reading Books Newspapers Selling Advertising Magazines Writers Readers Reading Quotes Advertisers The Media

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Speech itself, inevitable and unrelenting, is the wind. It can dance like a zephyr. It can roar shriek or wail. But it can't be stopped. Everything we hate about the media today was present at its creation: its corrupt or craven practitioners, its easy manipulation by the powerful, its capacity for propagating lies, its penchant for amplifying rage. Also present was everything we admire -- and require -- from the media: factual information, penetrating analysis, probing investigation, truth spoken to power. Same as it ever was.”

Freedom Journalism The Media Brooke Gladstone

Book:The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media

Source: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media

“On the borders of his world. That is where I find peace. In his embrace, I discovered a fortress of safety. No love is perfect, nor should it be. His darkness should defend me from my blinding light. While my brilliance shrouds his night. Love is a ghost, drifting where others can't glimpse its glow. It's truly a perilous predicament for both souls involved. It might be the death of the one of them. It can sculpt, assemble, and conjure; or it can shatter, decay, and dismantle.”

Love Quotes

Book:The Impaler's Legend

Source: The Impaler's Legend

“Capitalism has turned entertainment into a trap with which advertisers attempt to catch our attention in order to tempt us to release our money into their possession.”

Attention Capitalism Marketing Entertainment Social Media Selling Advertising Communism Pessimism The Media

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.”

Writers Reporters Invasion Of Privacy Paprazzi

Book:Cowboys Don't Sing

Source: Cowboys Don't Sing

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